Ryan Vallo

Ryan Vallo is an actor (Equity), screenwriter (WGGB), and historian (AHA), specializing in prestige historical dramas for film, television, and books. Creator of character-driven biopics, period dramas, and biographies, Ryan combines the rigor of historians with the emotional instincts of actors. He works at the crossroads of acting, history, and screenwriting--bringing the lives of real people from the archives to book and screen. With over 25 years' experience, Ryan's screenplays explore figures like President Harry S. Truman, President Andrew Jackson, and revolutionary poet Phillis Wheatley--stories where ambition, power, and human character collide in history's pivotal moments. Ryan's scripts have placed in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, the Emerging Screenwriters, and ISA's Table Read My Screenplay contests. A trained actor in the conservatoire music theatre program at Baldwin Wallace University and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Ryan is also a history master's graduate from the University of Edinburgh. He performed as "Gustav the Magician" in PBS's web series, "The Big Adventures of Little Ioda," winner of 5 Emmy® Awards. An American who has lived years in Scotland and the United Kingdom, Ryan knows how the archives open doors---to distant landscapes, to forgotten lives, to history's hidden dramas. An old-soul gentleman, his work is driven by the conviction that the stories of our past are the compass for our future.