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My name’s Ryan (he/they).

I’m an award-winning fat/queer indie producer & theatremaker based in Narrm (Melbourne) who tells stories about place, otherness, and utopia.

It’s nice to meet you 👋

I was born on in Sydney on Gadigal country, raised around the world in Barcelona, Athens, London, Vancouver (where I lived on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh land), and the Gold Coast (beautiful Kombumerri country).

I now live and work in Narrm across Bunurong and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country. I pay my respects to their elders, past & present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Join me in paying the rent.

Thanks for visiting my website. Around here you’ll find a portfolio of my work, a little newsletter documenting the work I’m making and seeing, plus I occasionally upload theatre & comedy reviews (although you’re more likely to find criticism in my newsletter and on my socials).

Queer Theatremaker 🎭

The work I create is often queer, site-specific, & verbatim, and looks to make our world a bit better.

The work I’m most proud of having made so far is called Full Cream, a story about fat kinship and liberation that I made with Em Keagan, Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara, and Georgie Wolfe.

Nowadays I make and produce work with Georgie Wolfe as Pigeon Pigeon. Our work together is intimate, soaked in sentimentality, and like our avian namesakes, found in the city’s cracks.

Independent Producer 🚀

I’m proud to have produced a variety of queer and experimental work as a freelance producer in venues such as my living room, Theatre Works, The Butterfly Club, Trades Hall, a working blacksmiths, and more.

During university I organised a series of developments with showings in my living room. One of these shows was by Paris Balla which became Owl & the Albatross. Owl went on to premiere in 2022 at Theatre Works St Kilda and was selected for the VCE Playlist.

More recently I produced Beowulf: Reforged at Melbourne Fringe in 2024. Reforged was a presentation of Felix Nobis’s original translation of Beowulf from old English, presented in one of Narrm’s last working blacksmiths—with the fire raging throughout.

Digital Marketer 🧑‍💻

When I’m not in a rehearsal room or watching a show, I’m a freelance digital marketer with experience in organic content creation, web development, EDM growth, marketing strategies for theatre, graphic design, and paid advertising.

Hit me up if you need any help with your content, web presence, or to sell tickets.

Personal Projects 🎙️

I love to talk about the theatre scene in Narrm (Melbourne). Sometimes you’ll find written reviews on this site, sometimes I post video reviews on Instagram and TikTok, but mostly I yap about what I’m watching in my newsletter In the Round.

Since 2024 I’ve been a member of the Green Room Awards Independent Theatre panel and as of August 2025 have been elected to Vice-President of the Association.

I love seeing as much theatre as I can, as shown in the 238 shows I saw in 2024 and this running list of shows I’m watching in 2025.

I also record a weekly-ish podcast called Broadly Relevant, a quick-fire overview of the week’s news ft. a sufficient amount of shit-talking with one of my high school besties.

Education 🎓

I am a graduate of Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business. I studied at the (now defunct) Centre for Theatre and Performance, but I spent most of my time being mentored by professionals and peers at Monash Uni Student Theatre. MUST was the highlight of my studies and is where I got my start making and producing theatre.

The lowest point of my time at Monash was when Professor Sharon Pickering (then the Dean of Arts) axed the course and school I was studying at. At the same time, the high point of my studies was banding together with my peers leading a campaign to save the course.

Canon fodder: Monash cuts to music studies draw chorus of protest

More than 70 scholars from universities including Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge have urged Monash Uni to reverse a decision to scrap some music units under plans to shed 277 full-time jobs.

The AgeAdam Carey