Yorkshireman Ryan joined the team in 2006 after graduating from the University of Leeds with a degree in Music Theatre. He worked in various departments of the hire library before joining the amateur licensing team in 2010. In January 2021 Ryan was appointed Director of Operations, Education & Development. 

Ryan is particuarly passionate about musical theatre in education and is proud to produce the Junior Theatre Festival Europe, Europe's biggest celebration of musical theatre for young people which takes place annually at The ICC in Birmingham. 

Outside of MTI, Ryan is a keen musical director and pianist, and has been involved with a number of amateur societies and youth groups across London. He seems to be steadily working his way through the MTI catalogue of shows, having been involved in productions of: Assassins, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Jekyll and Hyde, Legally Blonde, Little Shop of Horrors, Ragtime,  Rent, tick tick… BOOM!, Little Women and many more.