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Sean Ryan

Actor Bio

Sean Ryan is an actor and singer who will be attending the Stella Adler Studio of Acting beginning in the fall of 2025.

He will soon graduate with a BA in Theatre Arts and Strategic Communications, PR & Advertising from Sacred Heart University. While an undergrad he has worked on a number of plays and musicals as an actor, producer, and assistant director. Highlights include: Fun Home (Bruce Bechdel); The Crucible (John Proctor); The Rocky Horror Show (Brad Majors); Ride the Cyclone (Ricky Potts).

Recent Theatrical Credits: American Idiot (Johnny) directed by Jerry Goehring; Reject Me, Already (All Roles, Rotating Lottery Cast) directed by Jerry Goehring, making its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Promises, Promises (J.D. Sheldrake) directed by Jerry Goehring.

Sean is an avid music fan, who listens to pretty much all types of music. When he is not acting, he enjoys the beach, books, plays, One Piece, concerts, and restaurants. He is a trained singer with a strong baritone voice. He was born and raised in Rhode Island and couldn’t be prouder to be from the smallest state in the US.

Artistic Statement

I have acted on stage since I was in the first grade. I played a fox in my school’s musical Snow White and since then I have been hooked. There is no other passion in my life that causes as much excitement as acting does. Acting allows me to express myself when I cannot and in ways I never thought were possible. It teaches me new things about myself while also discovering a new character and creating their world.

At its foundation and core, acting is about storytelling. To put a story on its feet and breathe life into each character has always fascinated me. I want to showcase an array of humanistic expressions and share stories with the world. I want to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves and let the world learn from them.

One of my biggest discoveries is that acting is not just a one-sided profession; it is more of a dance with the audience. All the actors on stage are leading the dance, but theatre only works when the audience is engaged with what the actors are portraying on stage. When an audience is right there alongside the actors, the show is that much more engaging and entertaining and leads to an overall better performance.

There was one major time in my life where I was unsure if I wanted to keep performing. It happened when I was a junior in high school with the COVID-19 Pandemic. We were in tech week for our production The Great Gatsby, and we had to close it without getting to say goodbye. During these long months of being indoors I really reflected on my life and how theatre has been a major part of that. It was the first time in my life since I can remember that I wasn’t working on a production and it felt strange. The summer after COVID I returned to the stage in a production of Newsies and I found a piece of me that I had been missing for months. Acting has shaped and made me the man I am today and I can’t fathom what it would be like to just stop, especially without a proper goodbye.

This past summer I had the opportunity to perform at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. We performed an originally written musical where each member of the cast was chosen what part to play by the audience minutes before we went on stage. It was a very intense experience but looking back it was extremely rewarding. However, during one of the performances during our run for the month where I was sitting backstage getting ready for my next scene and this overwhelming feeling of joy and assurance came over me. I was extremely happy that I was able to perform and I knew that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. There is no other thing in this world that I have tried that brings me such love, anger, frustration, or excitement as acting does, and there is such beauty in that.

To be an actor means knowing your work is never finished. It’s to be aware that your training will never end and you will always be working towards bettering yourself. This is the life I want to live and the life I have tried to live since being put on this earth.