RYAN Paranthoiene
Ryan Paranthoiene has directed Shakespeare’s Macbeth and written and directed The Dancer, both for the UTS Drama Studio. Fool For Love will be his third directorial effort.
As an actor he has appeared in theatre, television and film. His earliest theatre performances were with Roundabout Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre Company.
With Roundabout Theatre Company his credits include Macbeth (where he played Malcolm & 2nd Murderer), Witness: Speak No Evil (where he played an abusive father), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (where he played Bottom), Skeletons (where he played an estranged son to a distant father) and Hamlet (where he played Fortinbras, Orsino & one of the players), and with Darlinghurst Theatre Company he performed in Rorschach (playing Johnny Hollywood a famous American actor who hands over his life’s savings to a European theatre company, so they will write a play where he dies on stage – for real).
Ryan played in Am I Your Dream?, winner of 1995’s Sydney Theatre Company’s Young Playwright of the Year. He played the part of Boy in this two-hander which toured throughout Adelaide and Sydney and was part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Other credits include, Romeo & Juliet (where he played Tybalt) for the Campbelltown Theatre Company, Love Bytes (where he played John) for the Pymble Players, Love & War and No One Punches the Mediator Anymore for Newtown Theatre.
For the Lieder Theatre Company, Ryan has appeared in The Servant of Two Masters (where he played Pantalone), Rabbit Hole (where he played Howie), Agatha Christie’s The Hollow (where he played John Cristow, M.D., F.R.C.P.), The Laramie Project (in a number of roles), Two Weeks with the Queen (as Dad), A Streetcar Named Desire (where he played Stanley Koswalski), Australia Day (where he played Robert Wilson), Twelfth Night (as Orsino), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (in the roles of Dr Mortimer, Castillian Desk Clerk, Wilson, Stapelton & Dr McCann), Jules Verne’s Journey Through the Impossible (as Master Volsius), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (playing an idiotic version of himself), The Touch of Silk (where he played Mr Ritchie), Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers (as King Louis XIII, D’Artagnan’s Father, Basille, Fouquet & Fache), The 13-Storey Treehouse (in a variety of roles), George Orwell’s 1984 (as O’Brien), Journey Through Country (as Governor Lachlan Macquarie) and Blackbird (as Ray).
Ryan has also appeared in the experimental feature film Love Brokers with Ben Mendelsohn and Megan Connolly, Packed to the Rafters for Channel 7, and a number of short films, corporate training videos & commercials.