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Ryan M. Luévano 

Ryan M. Luévano (he/him) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, talent manager, conductor, and theatre critic in the greater Los Angeles area. He’s served as music director for Santa Ana College, The Colony Theatre, The Sierra Madre Playhouse and the Burbank Community Theater. Additionally, he’s worked as a professor of music at Woodbury University, Santa Ana College and Rio Hondo College. He is also a regular teaching artist at A Noise Within Theatre Company in Pasadena, on the board of directors on the Foundation for New American Musicals, a staff writer for Stage Raw, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Ryan received his Master’s degree in musicology from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. As a musicologist his area of expertise is in the history of musical theater in America. Accordingly, he is currently working on adapting his Master’s thesis, “Everything’s Coming Up Sex! A Survey of Sex and Sexual Orientation” into a new book on musical theater history.

MUSICALS: Shoot Ma! (Colony Theater in Burbank 2010) and Experience Magic! (Sierra Madre Playhouse 2011) and 57 Bus.

PLAYS: Passing Time, Love is Dead, La Lavadora and Dance Plague.

Most recently he was accepted as Artists-in-Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France for summer 2021, awarded the Denis Diderot Grant for his work on the musical 57 Bus and won the Full Circle Players’ New Works Play Festival in 2021 for his play La Lavadora.

Ryan is also a talent manager and career coach with his company Maestro & Magic Productions. He is manager of the “Hollywood’s Favorite Magician” Jeff Black and various other artists.