Biography

Ryan McDonald is an award winning actor, director, writer and producer. His film work has been featured in the San Antonio Film Festival, the Orlando Film Slam Festival, the Salty Horror Film Festival, and the Salt Lake 48 Hour Film Festival. He is also the host for the Annual Ogden's Big Lebowski Festival and the Elvis Rocks Ogden annual event.

He has been making short films since he was 15 years old and in 2009 he graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor degree in Film, and Minor in Mass Communication. In 2011 Ryan McDonald, along with childhood friend Jason White, helped create the New Ogden Cinema, a local cinema group from the Ogden area with a focus on indie-film making and bringing independent filmmakers together for production.

In 2012 Ryan joined the Egyptian Theatre Foundation Board of Directors, a non-profit organization designed in bringing awareness to the historic Peery's Egyptian Theatre in Ogden, Utah.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dee Kershaw