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Ryan Drake is a queer playwright and educator in Brooklyn, NY. His play you don't have to do anything had an acclaimed sold-out run at HERE Arts Center presented by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Will Arbery. His work has been supported at New York Theater Workshop, IRT Theater, Mercury Store, The Brick Aux, The Tank, The Flea, and The Wild Project. He's a member of Roundabout Theater's Space Jam Program, an Artist-in-Residence at New York Theater Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, a two-time PWC Core Apprentice Finalist and a two-time Page 73 and Princess Grace Semifinalist. His short films have been screened at Newfest, Maryland Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival among others. He won the Rita & Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize and the James E. Michael Playwriting Prize. He's been an Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College. BA: Kenyon College, MFA: Hunter College, Playwriting.