Ryan Conarro

Ryan Conarro works in media, performance, and education. As a theater maker, he’s directed and performed with Ping Chong & Company, La MaMa, Dixon Place, Theater Mitu, Perseverance Theatre, Stonington Opera House, and more. He served as Visiting Professor of Theatre at the University of Denver and adjunct faculty in Applied Theatre at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education and at the New School for Drama. He's also taught theatre and education at University of Alaska Southeast. Ryan presented his performance work "Saints of Failure," exploring LGBTQ Christian identity, in a site-specific production at Holy Trinity Church in Juneau, with Laurie Clough as organ accompanist; the production also ran at Denver's Historic Grant Avenue Church and Brooklyn's Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. He first moved to Alaska in 2001 to work in community radio in Nome; he then moved to Juneau where he lived till 2014.  Ryan’s been based in Denver since 2020, where he works with Colorado Radio for Justice, Youth on Record, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He continues to spend time in and work in Alaska communities whenever he can. ryanconarro.com