Ry Herman is the author of many
works for the stage, and for the past decade has also served as the
artistic director of the Bloody Unicorn Theater Company, which stages
new and original works. Ry's controversial play Man On Dog premiered
Off-Off-Broadway in 2005, where it was called "reprehensible" and "like
a fork in the eye", after which the theater it was performed in was
torn down. But Ry's play Vamp
was performed to critical and audience acclaim by Portland, Oregon's
Stark Raving Theatre in 2006, and immediately afterwards the 20 year
old theater company went bankrupt and closed its doors forever. Ry is
waiting until something like this happens three times in a row before
getting nervous about it.
Ry has written award-winning musicals, one-acts, shorts, and full-lengths, including Vamp, Man On Dog, The Monster, Voices In My Head, Foul Play, Dead Cat, Damn Your Eyes, and Child's Play (co-written with Kolby Granville.) These and others of Ry's works have been performed across the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as Manhattan's Emerging Artists' Theatre, Michigan's Purple Rose Theatre, Boston Playwrights' Theatre in Massachusetts, and The Temple of Music and Art in Arizona.
Ry's plays have been winners or finalists in competitions including the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Competition, Reverie Production's Next Generation Playwriting Contest, the AQT2005 Writing Contest, the Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival, Theatre Oxford's Ten Minute Play Contest, the Ten by Ten in the Triangle Competition, The 15 Minutes or Less Festival, The Play in a Day Festival, and the Fifteen Minutes of Fame Contest. A number of Ry's plays are available through publishers including Baker's Plays, United Stages, and Meriwether. And all of Ry's plays particularly those about vampires, aliens, and secret civilizations in the sewer system, are entirely autobiographical.
For more information about each of Ry's plays, click on:
Ry has written award-winning musicals, one-acts, shorts, and full-lengths, including Vamp, Man On Dog, The Monster, Voices In My Head, Foul Play, Dead Cat, Damn Your Eyes, and Child's Play (co-written with Kolby Granville.) These and others of Ry's works have been performed across the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as Manhattan's Emerging Artists' Theatre, Michigan's Purple Rose Theatre, Boston Playwrights' Theatre in Massachusetts, and The Temple of Music and Art in Arizona.
Ry's plays have been winners or finalists in competitions including the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Competition, Reverie Production's Next Generation Playwriting Contest, the AQT2005 Writing Contest, the Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival, Theatre Oxford's Ten Minute Play Contest, the Ten by Ten in the Triangle Competition, The 15 Minutes or Less Festival, The Play in a Day Festival, and the Fifteen Minutes of Fame Contest. A number of Ry's plays are available through publishers including Baker's Plays, United Stages, and Meriwether. And all of Ry's plays particularly those about vampires, aliens, and secret civilizations in the sewer system, are entirely autobiographical.
For more information about each of Ry's plays, click on:
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