Ryan Oliveira is a Brazilian-American playwright, dramaturg, and performer, currently based in Chicago. Recent credits include productions of Desire in a Tinier House (Pride Films and Plays, 2019) and Soccer Player in the Closet (Nothing Without a Company, 2019). His work has been developed with Broken Nose Theatre, Prop Thtr, Intrinsic Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and Commission Theatre Company. He has been a finalist for the 2016 Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists Grant and the 2017 Many Voices Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, as well as a 2016 Romulus Linney Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a semi-finalist for the 2017 O'Neill Theatre Conference. He is a proud member of ALTA’s El Semillero in Chicago, and the Pop Magic Productions...
Ryan Oliveira is a Brazilian-American playwright, dramaturg, and performer, currently based in Chicago. Recent credits include productions of Desire in a Tinier House (Pride Films and Plays, 2019) and Soccer Player in the Closet (Nothing Without a Company, 2019). His work has been developed with Broken Nose Theatre, Prop Thtr, Intrinsic Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and Commission Theatre Company. He has been a finalist for the 2016 Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists Grant and the 2017 Many Voices Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, as well as a 2016 Romulus Linney Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a semi-finalist for the 2017 O'Neill Theatre Conference. He is a proud member of ALTA’s El Semillero in Chicago, and the Pop Magic Productions Songwriting Group. MFA: University of Iowa (2015), BA: Cornell University (2008). For more information about his work, please check him out at www.ryanoliveira.com.