Ryan Ward (actor)
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Ryan Ward (born January 2, 1979) is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.[1] He is best known for his debut feature film as a director, Son of the Sunshine, for which Ward and Matthew Heiti were shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.[2]
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba,[3] he now splits his time between Winnipeg and Los Angeles.[4] As an actor, he had primarily supporting roles in films, including Nostradamus, We Ate the Children Last and Sidekick, prior to Son of the Sunshine, as well as a long-running stage role in the original Off-Broadway and Toronto productions of Evil Dead The Musical for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.[5][6][7]
He has also directed the short films In the Beginning was Water and Sky (PBS, National Film Board of Canada), Amerika, Time Traveling Through Time, and Our Secret.[8][9]
In 2023 Ward released Daughter of the Sun, a sequel to Son of the Sunshine.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "Keeping it alive: Ryan Ward and Matt Heiti talk Son of the Sunshine and Genie nominations". Toronto Film Scene, February 2012.
- ^ "Cafe de Flore, A Dangerous Method, lead Genies race". Toronto Star, January 18, 2012.
- ^ "Filmmaker finds his place in the sunshine; Ryan Ward's psycho-drama centres on man with Tourette's - and power to heal". Montreal Gazette, September 5, 2009.
- ^ https://shoutoutla.com/meet-ryan-ward-mackenzie-leigh-film-writer-director-producer/
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/blood-song-and-dance-evil-dead-the-musical-opens-off-broadway-com-135983
- ^ "In search of spooky thrills". The Globe and Mail, October 31, 2013.
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/scorched-we-will-rock-you-four-horsemen-are-among-2007-dora-winners-in-toronto-com-141799
- ^ [1]
- ^ https://www.nfb.ca/film/in-the-beginning-was-water-and-sky/
- ^ Kelly Townsend, "Fantasia sets two Canadian world bows among first wave titles". Playback, May 11, 2023.
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