Ryan Reynolds

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Ryan Reynolds is an electrical engineer who turned to performance studies, receiving his PhD from the University of Canterbury in 2006, where he now teaches in the Theatre and Film Studies programme. He is president of the NZ Federation of Film Societies, Group Secretary of the Asia-Pacific region of the International Federation of Film Societies and a member of the NZ Film Festival Trust. He is a long-standing performer and intermedial designer. After the September 2010 earthquake, he co-founded and now chairs Gap Filler, a charitable initiative activating vacant sites around the city with creative projects. His thesis, and later book, put forth a radical theory of contemporary political theatre.



'Playing Favourites' with Kim Hill (RadioNZ), 2012.
'Upbeat' (RadioNZ) re 'The Marvellous Corricks', 2010.

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