Ryan Howland is a rural Vermont native, a theatre maker, and educator with an undergraduate degree in Theatre from the University of Vermont and a Masters in Theater Education from Emerson College. Pre-Covid, Ryan ran the Drama program at Kinsella Magnet High School for Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut where he taught classes in performance, playwriting, directing, devised theatre, and technical design, as well as directing and designing for Kinsella’s after school productions. During his tenure at Kinsella, Ryan also sat on the board for the Connecticut Drama Association and taught for two summers as the Acting Teaching Artist at the Boch Center of Boston’s City Spotlights program. Currently, Ryan is pursuing a Doctorate of Education in the program of Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities at New York University where he is using verbatim documentary performance to explore rural high school drama programs.

Memorable performance credits include the Male Greek Chorus in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive at the University of Vermont, Sir Hugh Evans in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor with Capital Classics in Hartford, CT, and the Scrooge-like depiction of former President Donald Trump in an original play entitled A Dystrumpian Christmas Carol produced at the Carriage House Theatre in Hartford, CT. Memorable directing credits include an original adaptation of Holly Hughes' Clit Notes at the University of Vermont, a post-apocalyptic envisioning of Antigone at Kinsella Magnet High School, and a sci-fi-disco-inspired imagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest at Kinsella Magnet High School.