NICK RYAN is a founding member and resident playwright of Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis. He has written seven shows with the company including Candide, Mortem Capiendum, and Harold.  Endurance, created in collaboration with Split Knuckle Theater, premiered during the 2010 Connecticut Repertory Theater Nutmeg Summer Series, and has since toured the world performing in New York City, London, Paris, Maastricht, Athens and Bangkok. His most recent collaboration with Split Knuckle, The Band of the Black Hand, premiered at Connecticut Repertory Theatre in March 2015. In the Spring of 2012 he collaborated with the company, 3 Sticks, on Paper Plane, a music theater piece developed in residency at One Arm Red in Brooklyn, and performed at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. He graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a BA in Theater Arts, where he was the two time recipient of the Arthur Ballet Award for Playwriting. Nick currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.