RYAN J. HADDAD

Ryan J. Haddad is an actor and playwright. His autobiographical plays include Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations), Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr/Public Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), and Hi, Are You Single? (Woolly Mammoth/IAMA, Helen Hayes nomination). Additional stage credits: La Cage aux Folles (Pasadena Playhouse), american (tele)visions (New York Theatre Workshop/Theater Mitu, Lortel nomination), The Watering Hole (Signature), and his cabaret Falling for Make Believe (Joe’s Pub/Under the Radar). TV: “A Murder at the End of the World” (Hulu) and “The Politician” (Netflix). Haddad received the Drama Desk’s 2023 Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award, Vineyard Theatre’s 2021 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, and a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Out Magazine, and Alice Wong’s anthology Disability Intimacy. He is an alum of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a former Queer|Art Performance and Playwriting Fellow, under the mentorship of Moe Angelos. @ryanjhaddad