Biography

Ryan Duffy is a director and executive producer with two decades of experience in unscripted television, documentary film, and journalism. His work is notable for a focus on difficult-to-access worlds and first- person storytelling from underrepresented characters.

Duffy is currently Showrunning and Executive Producing the Netflix series Untold, a sports documentary anthology from Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Maclain & Chapman Way (Wild Wild Country), Propagate, and The Players' Tribune that chronicles sports stories that transcend the field of play.

He also doubles as the Director for select episodes, including the two-part Volume 2 season premiere The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist, exploring the infamous Manti Te'o catfishing scandal through exclusive first-time accounts from both Te'o and the catfisher.

Duffy is also currently in production on a crime and reporting series with Jigsaw for Discovery, a feature-length exploration of fandom with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), and a limited series with Raw focused on college football for Netflix.

Previously, Duffy created and directed Netflix's Home Game, a 8 x 30 series that showcased one-of-a-kind local sports and the incredible communities they create everywhere from Kyrgyzstan to the Congo.

Over the course of his career, Duffy has directed and produced for Netflix, HBO, Nat Geo, Fox, and MTV among others. His work has been recognized with an Emmy for Best Informational Series, multiple Webby Awards, and a spot Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in Media.

Duffy also serves as the at-large Executive Producer of Derek Jeter's The Players' Tribune, and in that capacity has worked with the world's most celebrated athletes (Kobe Bryant, Russel Wilson, Kevin Durant, etc) and Fortune 500 brands to create immersive, first-person storytelling for TV and digital.

After studying documentary filmmaking at NYU, Duffy became one of the first 10 employees at Vice Media while an undergrad. He would ultimately help lead Vice through a period of explosive growth over the next decade, becoming one of the faces of Vice television efforts, including the acclaimed HBO show that saw him scale empty high-rises in China's Ghost Towns, get shot on the outskirts of Bogota, and travel to North Korea with Dennis Rodman. These days he is much more comfortable (and a hell of a lot safer) behind the camera.
- IMDb mini biography by: UTA