Ryan Tasker*
Ron Pundak/Jan EgelandRyan Tasker has previously appeared at MTC in Straight White Men (Matt), Anne Boleyn (Simpkin/Barrow) and August: Osage County (Deon Gilbeau). Other recent roles include Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac with the Livermore Shakespeare Festival, where he has also appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), The Real Thing (Max), and Sense and Sensibility (Colonel Brandon). He is an Associate Artist with Word for Word Performing Arts Company in San Francisco, with whom he has originated roles in Three on a Party and You Know When the Men Are Gone, as well as acting and directing for their Off the Page staged reading series. Tasker's other credits include work with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Pacific Repertory, Theatre Rhinoceros, TheatreFIRST, theatre Q, and Just Theater, among others."