Ryan Vincent Anderson

Ryan Vincent Anderson is an actor and playwright from Queens, NYC. His work has been produced at the annual Robey Theatre Company's Paul Robeson Short Play Festival in LA, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, Son of Semele Solo Creation Festival, and The New York New Works Festival. His play “Right To Bear” was a SemiFinalist for the 2025 Oneill National Playwrights Conference and received Honorable Mention for The American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Awards in 2024. Ryan's work deals with complex issues that are actor driven and usually mixed with a bit of magic realism.

Ryan Vincent Anderson is an actor and playwright from Queens, NYC. His work has been produced at the annual Robey Theatre Company's Paul Robeson Short Play Festival in LA, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, Son of Semele Solo Creation Festival, and The New York New Works Festival. His play “Right To Bear” was a SemiFinalist for the 2025 Oneill National Playwrights Conference and received Honorable Mention for The American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Awards in 2024. Ryan's work deals with complex issues that are actor driven and usually mixed with a bit of magic realism.

Scripts

Right To Bear

by Ryan Vincent Anderson

Synopsis

Claire, a Yosemite National Park Ranger with a troubled past, is tasked to put down L-13, a “problem bear” who recently killed a park goer. But when she finds out the bear can talk to her and only her, Claire decides to help L-13 with a time sensitive request. With night quickly approaching and her determined partner on their heels, the unlikely pair must lift each other up, if they ever hope to release what’s...

Claire, a Yosemite National Park Ranger with a troubled past, is tasked to put down L-13, a “problem bear” who recently killed a park goer. But when she finds out the bear can talk to her and only her, Claire decides to help L-13 with a time sensitive request. With night quickly approaching and her determined partner on their heels, the unlikely pair must lift each other up, if they ever hope to release what’s been weighing them down.

Joice Heth Ain't Dead or Barnum's Black Ballyhoo

by Ryan Vincent Anderson

Synopsis

In 1835, a young, brazen and unknown P.T. Barnum, buys and exploits a black slave woman named Joice Heth - believed to be 161 years old and the former mammy to George Washington. JOICE HETH AIN’T DEAD imagines the longtime buried history of how one black woman launched the career of one of the most well known celebrities of the 19th century, while raising the question - why was it buried to begin with.

In 1835, a young, brazen and unknown P.T. Barnum, buys and exploits a black slave woman named Joice Heth - believed to be 161 years old and the former mammy to George Washington. JOICE HETH AIN’T DEAD imagines the longtime buried history of how one black woman launched the career of one of the most well known celebrities of the 19th century, while raising the question - why was it buried to begin with.

Buttering Toast

by Ryan Vincent Anderson

Synopsis

Buttering Toast follows, Bob, a 30something down and out guy who is struggling to find a way forward after being dumped by his fiancé, and unexpectedly losing his father. While fighting thoughts of not existing, Bob seeks comfort in the only friend he has left...who happens to be his toaster.

Buttering Toast follows, Bob, a 30something down and out guy who is struggling to find a way forward after being dumped by his fiancé, and unexpectedly losing his father. While fighting thoughts of not existing, Bob seeks comfort in the only friend he has left...who happens to be his toaster.

Brick Thieves

by Ryan Vincent Anderson

Synopsis

In a town that is being erased brick by brick, a grieving widower struggles to keep his family together, while his son yearns for his own path in life.

In a town that is being erased brick by brick, a grieving widower struggles to keep his family together, while his son yearns for his own path in life.