Hailing from Long Island, NY, Chris Ryan is an ASCAP award-winning composer based in Los Angeles whose credits span film, television, videogames and theatre.
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Most recently, Chris composed music for the cult hit Hundreds of Beavers, praised by the Los Angeles Times as “mania from heaven.” His work can also be heard in projects such as Scream VI, AppleTV+’s critically acclaimed nature docuseries Tiny World, and the period thriller-comedy Coup! starring Billy Magnussen and Peter Sarsgaard, for which he composed the Main Titles. As an orchestrator, Chris had the pleasure of working on Benjamin Wallfisch’s rousing score for the #1 box office hit Shazam! As a performer and arranger, his collaboration with Michael Giacchino, LOST: Music from the Island for Solo Piano, landed on the Billboard charts and remains a fan favorite. As a songwriter, Chris’s music and lyrics can be heard in SNL head writer Anna Drezen’s animated adult comedy Praise Petey, and his score for Spotify Original’s scripted audio series Gay Pride & Prejudice was nominated for a Podcast Academy Award.
Chris has contributed additional music to shows such as ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and his work can be heard in national ad campaigns for companies including Trulicity, Mattress Firm and CAMP. An alum of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Steve Kaplan Award, Chris previously served as assistant to orchestrator David Krystal, with whom he worked on projects for composers Benjamin Wallfisch, Harry Gregson-Williams and Tom Howe, among others.
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Past collaborators have included SNL’s Bowen Yang, "intensely funny surrealist comedy" group Gentlemen Party (TimeOutNY) and Pipeline Theatre Company, named one of NYC's best theatre companies by Gothamist. His work on Pipeline's The Gray Man alongside co-composer Mike Brun received praise from The New York Times, and his sound teams have been nominated for two Golden Reel awards by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE). A member of the ASCAP family, he is an alum of the NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop.
A storyteller at heart, Chris received his degree in film production from the University of Miami in 2012. After five years based in Brooklyn, NY, he made the jump to Los Angeles in 2017 with his husband, Larson Grant award-winning playwright and television writer Andrew Farmer. They live in Glendale, CA with their adorably overgrown potted plants.
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“The production values are exceptional. Shadows, tinkling piano music and other effects create an immersive sense of menace...”
“Chris had created remarkable solo piano arrangements which captured the characters and emotions of all the major themes I had written for the show. Feeling that a professionally recorded version of his work was something that should be shared with all fans of LOST, I tracked him down.”
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