Ryan Kitley

Teaches at Piven Theatre Workshop

Ryan Kitley has worked in Los Angeles and Chicago for nearly 20 years as an actor, an improviser, a director, and an acting teacher. He is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA with his MFA in acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University. Film and television credits include Miss March, San Gabriel, Dream Slashers, Soul Survivors, Barbershop II, Laqueus, The Heart of the Matter, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Turks, and Early Edition, in addition to many commercials, and industrials. Ryan also works as a voice-over artist and has created the voices of several characters for the Lucas Arts video game, Old Republic. Theatre credits include major roles at The Matrix Theater, The Colony Theater, The Organic Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Theatre at the Center, Meadow Brook Theatre, Journeymen, Free Associates, and Talisman Theatre. Ryan received two Jeff Citation nominations for his role as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Austin in The Big Funk. As an improviser Ryan has studied and performed at ImprovOlympic, The Second City Training Center, The Piven Theater Workshop, and The Westside Eclectic. For the past 10 years he has worked as a teaching artist for various acting schools and programs in Chicago and LA. He was born and raised on the Jersey Shore - exit 109. Ryan and his wife Kelley have three kids, Connor, Maggie, and Murphy who always seem to make life a little more interesting.