Ryan joined Deadline in March 2021 as Assistant Editor for Awardsline, rising to Crafts Editor in 2022. He received his MFA in Studio Art at The City College of New York in 2019. He contributes to the awards coverage of animation and the craft side of film and television. In his role as Crafts Editor, Ryan also contributes to the editing of Deadline's AwardsLine magazines and interviews contenders above and below the line.
As someone who started their career with dreams of building sets on Broadway, production designer Patrick Howe was thrilled with season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. "I loved everything about season 3 that was relating to our stage musical," he says. "It was really great to mix all of those things…
There is no show out there like RuPaul's Drag Race. A reality drag competition series that has run for 16 seasons with repeated Emmy nominations, year after year? "Drag Race is so unique it almost shouldn't exist," says EP Tom Campbell. "The fact that it does is so much about RuPaul and his vision and his…
For FX's adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun, it was essential for series creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks to focus on authenticity in every department. "It was really important for Justin [Marks], the showrunner, to find someone who grew up in Japan, had an authentic Japanese…
After working on 28 episodes over six seasons of The Crown, including both the pilot and finale, cinematographer Adriano Goldman couldn't be happier with how much it's changed his life. "It's just a joy to be able to say I did the very first one and the very last one, so its full circle for me and…
For a competition series like The Traitors, it’s important for cinematographers Siggi Rosen-Rawlings and Matt Wright to keep the players as immersed in the game as possible. While the players compete in a series of challenges and conspire with each other to root out the traitors, the pair is hard at work…
Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge. To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings…
As she began her work on Hacks, it became quickly apparent to costume designer Kathleen Felix-Hager that perfecting the look of Deborah Vance was an immediate priority. "I'm really proud of the collaboration between Jean [Smart] and I, and Paul [W. Downs] and Lucia [Aniello] in creating this character,"…
"The zen garden is the type of garden that's providing people more freedom in a sense of point of view, because it's meant to be viewed from a certain distance, and from whichever angles you are seeing objects in the garden, it provides a relativity between those rocks or the landscape and how you see…
RuPaul's Drag Race continues to top itself year after year, and it shows no sign of slowing down after receiving 10 Emmy nominations for the show's 16th season.
"Thankfully, we draw from such a deep well of queen talent across the country," explains EP Mandy Salangsang at a virtual panel for…
When composer Carlos Rafael Rivera joined Lessons in Chemistry, the tone of the score was not fully realized yet. "When I came on, the idea that was proposed was to take something very against the time and the tone of the story," he says. "It wasn't really working, but the experience itself was good…
Aja Naomi King received her first Emmy nomination this morning for her role as Harriet Sloane in the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry.
“This is one of the most amazing days of my life,” says King. “Sometimes there are just things that come your way that utterly blow your mind because…
"I really wanted to be lead editor on this, because I loved it so much," says Silo editor Hazel Baillie. "I loved episode one so much, but I also thought for a big sci-fi show, it's not common [to have] a female lead editor."
Apple TV+'s Silo takes place in a dystopian future where a community of…