Ron Riley

A professional actor & musician, Ron is a member of Café Antarsia Ensemble with Ruth Margraff, Nikos Brisco and Rami el Aassar. The group released their debut CD, Songs of the Table, on Innova Records in 2007, have recorded their second CD, Land of the Great Horses in Austin, TX, and has toured internationally.

Ron has also appeared in New Dramatists alum productions including Carlyle Brown’s play, Pure Confidence, at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; The New York Fringe Festival’s production of Portrait of a President by Herman Daniel Farrell III; Keli Garrett’s Uppa Creek, directed by Dominic Taylor at Dixon Place; Keith Glover’s Dark Paradise at Cincinnati Playhouse; the OBIE Award-winning Off Broadway revival production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson at the New Federal Theatre; They Still Mambo In Havana at The Flea and Partial Complex Seizure, written and directed by Rogelio Martinez at the Playwrights’ Collective; Christopher Columbus by Nikos Kazantdakis, directed by Lloyd Richards at the New Federal Theatre; Crocodile Eyes written and directed by Eduardo Machado at Theatre for the New City; and Soho Rep’s production of Skin by Naomi Iizuka.

A veteran of “many dusty, downtown productions,” he is a 1991 graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a B.F.A. with Honors and a 1991 Founders Award.

He is currently the Operations Director at New Dramatists, having worked in administrative and IT capacities for The Flea Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, The Builders, EST, The Foundry Theatre, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons and Borough of Manhattan Community College.

NFT Credits

Credit Type Production Season
Actor Joe Turner’s Come and Gone 1996-97 Season
Actor Christopher Columbus 1997-98 Season