Brett Ryback

Brett Ryback is an actor, composer/lyricist, and writer. He is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award. His musical podcast “In Strange Woods” hit #1 on Apple’s fiction chart and was an iHeartRadio Award nominee. Works include: Love Is Dead (NAMT, Village Theater); Passing Through (Goodspeed); Joe Schmoe Saves the World (NAMT, ASCAP/Dreamworks Workshop); Arthur & Friends Make a Musical! (First Stage); Nate the Great (TRW); Free Speech Zone (Austin Film Festival Semifinalist). His award-winning plays Weïrd and A Roz By Any Other Name are both published in “The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008.” As an actor, he originated the role of Marcus Off-Broadway in Murder for Two, and more recently appeared in the 1st National Tour of Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol. He lives in LA with his husband and their miniature schnauzer, Hilde.