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Actor, Director, Theatre Teacher
Director of the Drama Department at C.E. Byrd High School

Ryan Williams is in his twelfth year as Director of the Byrd High School Drama Department.

Ryan is from Shreveport and attended Byrd High School. He received his BA in Theatre/Speech from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1999. Upon graduating from Centenary, he moved to New York City for an internship in theatre administration at The Juilliard School on the campus of Lincoln Center. He moved back to Shreveport and began teaching.

Ryan received his Masters Degree in Education from Louisiana Tech University and named Caddo Parish High School Teacher of the Year in 2010.

In addition to teaching drama and film classes at Byrd, he also directs the majority of the plays and musicals Byrd Drama produces. Some of these shows include The Wizard of Oz, Hairspray, Gaslight, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, and Little Women the Musical, and Eleemosynary, which was selected to be performed at the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, NE.

Ryan has also directed many plays and musicals in the Shreveport area, including
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Clue: The Musical, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Singin' in the Rain, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me, Kate, The Secret Garden, and Pangaea.

As an actor Mr. Williams has appeared in many local productions. Most recently, Ryan has been seen as Dan in Next to Normal (StageCenter), Peter Austin in It’s Only a Play (RCRT), and Alex More in Buyer & Cellar (RCRT). Some of his favorite roles include Mike in As Bees in Honey Drown(MLP), Jafar in Aladdin (PPP), Mordred in Camelot (PAC), Albert Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (MLP), Erik in Grand Hotel(MLP), and Eddie Lyons in Blood Brothers (MLP) a performance which garnered him the Times Drama Award as Best Actor in a Musical.

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Centenary College of Louisiana

1999