Tammy Ryan’s plays have been performed, commissioned and developed across the
United States and internationally at such theatres as the Alliance Theatre,
City Theater Company, Marin Theatre Company, People’s Light, Pittsburgh
Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Portland Stage, among many others.
Honors include the Francesca Primus Prize by the American Theatre Critics
Association for Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods and the AATE Distinguished
Play Award for The Music Lesson. Ryan was named a Haas fellow for
her play Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye in 2020 and became the
inaugural recipient of The Boost, a new play commission award from the Leah Ryan Fund, in 2024. Other works include Seven
Cousins for a Horse (Thrown Stone Theatre Company), The Wake
(Premiere Stages), Molly’s Hammer (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Soldier’s
Heart (Pittsburgh Playhouse) and Baby’s Blues (National Centre for
Performing Arts, Mumbai). Her work has received support from the National New Play
Network, The New Harmony Project, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation.
She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of the Dramatists
Guild.