Ryan's short documentary "Spokespeople" recently won Best Documentary Short at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film also won awards at the Better Cities Film Festival and the Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Awards for Decolonizing/Re-Indigenizing Media. Ryan's work has been seen at the Goodspeed Opera House, the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the New York Musical Festival, and the American Theatre of Actors.