Tammy Ryan

Tammy Ryan is a playwright and librettist based in Pittsburgh. Her wide-ranging work has been commissioned, developed, and performed at theaters across the U.S. and internationally, including The Alliance Theater, Florida Stage, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Premiere Stages, Portland Stage Company and The Pittsburgh Public Theater among others. A resident playwright of New Dramatists, she is a winner of the Francesca Primus Prize and the inaugural recipient of the 2024 Leah Ryan “Boost” Commission Award.

During her residency, Tammy Ryan will complete this commission for a new play centering around the transport of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit of 1978 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Told from the point of view of the working-class family whose patriarch is the Teamster truck driver responsible for moving the artifacts into the museum, The Boy King In Queens explores themes of family, class, race, and the collisions between generations both contemporary and ancient.