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Vimeo showcase page here

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UPCOMING/CURRENT/RECENT WORK:

July, 2026

Recorded audiobook version of
The Quantum Dawn, by Derek Kunsken
(volume 4 of The Quantum Evolution)
Recorded Books
recorded at VoxPod, NYC

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June, 2026

hyper_object
a new play by Graham Sack
directed and designed by Graham Sack
Hopkins Bloomberg Center Theatre, Washington DC

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June, 2026

Unfashioned Creatures
a new play by Kaye Hurley
staged reading
The Room, NYC

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June, 2026

Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Patrick Marber
directed by Rory McGregor
exploratory reading
Sunlight Studios, NYC

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April, 2026

Tragedy, a tragedy
a play by Will Eno
directed by Adam Coy
staged reading
New York Theatre Workshop, NYC

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March,2026

Liberty Scrap
a new play by Christina Masciotti
directed and designed by T. Ryder Smith
world premiere
The CultureLab, NYC

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January, 2026

Sejanus
a play by Ben Jonson
staged reading
Revelation Reading Series
Red Bull Theatre, NYC

info here
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January, 2026

Liberty Scrap, a new play by Christina Masciotti
developmental workshop IV
directed by T. Ryder Smith
Mercury Store, Brooklyn

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December, 2025

recorded audiobook version of
Iron Gate Sutra, by A. D. Sui
Recorded Books/VoiceWorks
recorded at VoxPod,NYC

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December, 2025

Liberty Scrap, a new play by Christina Masciotti
developmental workshop III
directed by T. Ryder Smith
FRIGID, NYC
and
The Culture Lab LIC

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September, 2025

Penguin Touquet (excerpt)
a play by Richard Foreman
staged reading, part of Memorial for Richard Foreman
directed by Rosemary Quinn
LaMama, NYC

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July, 2025

Liberty Scrap, a new play by Christina Masciotti
developmental workshop II
directed by T. Ryder Smith
The Culture Lab LIC

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May-June, 2025

Eurydice, a play by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Les Waters
Signature Theatre Co, NYC

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June, 2025

Fridge, a new play by Ben Horner
developmental reading

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T. Ryder Smith is an American actor, based in New York City.
He has appeared on Broadway in “Oslo”, “War Horse”, and “Equus”, (opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffith).  New York theatre credits include the world premieres of Christina Masciotti’s “No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh” (ART/NY), and “Social Security” (The Bushwick Starr), “Corruption” and “Oslo” by JT Rogers, (Lincoln Center), “Terra Firma” by Barbara Hammond, (COOP Theatre), “Our Lady of Kibeho”, by Katori Hall (Signature Theatre), “Apparition”, by Anne Washburn (The Connolly), “She Stoops to Comedy”, by David Greenspan (Playwrights Horizons), and “King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe” and “The Gods Are Pounding My Head”, by Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric).
Other work in New York includes Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play” (The Irondale Center), and her “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (Playwrights Horizons), Chekov’s “The Seagull” (Target Margin), Mae West’s “Sex” (Hourglass Group), Will Eno’s “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” (DR2), and “Lipstick Traces” (Foundry Theatre).
T. received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance in “Underneath the Lintel”, by Glen Berger, and shared a 2017 Obie Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast in “Oslo” and a 2007 Drama Desk award for Outstanding Ensemble for the 3-actor, 30-character “Lebensraum”, by Israel Horowitz.
Regional theatre work includes the world premieres of “Scenes from Court Life”, by Sarah Ruhl (Yale Rep), “Ass”, by Ellen Simon, (Pioneer Theatre), “Big Love”, by Charles Mee (Actors Theatre of Louisville), “Creditors”, by Doug Wright (La Jolla Playhouse), and “We Are Pussy Riot”, by Barbara Hammond (CATF). T received a Craig Noel award for Outstanding Lead Performance in the world premiere of “Lincolnesque”, by John Strand, (Old Globe Theatre).
In 2008, T. was part of a site-specific production of “Waiting for Godot” in New Orleans, performed in two neighborhoods still left devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The production was designed by artist Paul Chan, and co-produced by The Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time. The props from the production and a videotape of the performance are part of the permanent collection at MOMA.
On TV, T. has appeared on the shows “The Penguin”, “EVIL”, “Bull”, “Hunters”, “Instinct”, “The Blacklist”, “Elementary”, “White Collar”, “Damages”, “Blue Bloods”, “Nurse Jackie”, “Law & Order SVU”, and in the PBS miniseries “The Abolitionists”.
Films include “Brainscan”, “The Report”, “Lost Nation”, “Happy Tears”, “Ikonophile Z”, “El Cielo es Azul”, and experimental works by Marie Losier, Daniel Fish, Redmond Entwistle, Lawrence Krauser, Rachel Rose and The Hinge Collaborative.
T. voiced characters for the TV series “The Venture Brothers” (Baron Underbheit) and the Bioshock videogames (Sander Cohen.) He has narrated over 100 audiobooks, including works by Tolstoy, Chekov, Dostoevsky, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, J. Todd Scott, Ada Palmer, Peter Schjeldahl, Claire Vaye Watkins and Derek Kunsken. He won a 2021 Audie award for Best Non-Fiction audiobook with “Fire in Paradise”, has been awarded 5 Earphone awards from Audiofile magazine for outstanding audiobook narration, and performs with Theatre of War, and in Radio Bloomsday, the Pacifica radio readings of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.