I write musicals, plays, and screenplays.

I also act in things.

Hi. My name is
brett.

This is me.

Brett Ryback is an actor, composer/lyricist and writer. He is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award. His musical podcast In Strange Woods hit #1 on Apple’s fiction chart and was an iHeartRadio Award nominee for “Best Fiction Podcast.” Works for the stage include: Love Is Dead (NAMT ‘25, CVRep); Arthur & Friends Make a Musical! (First Stage); Passing Through (Goodspeed); Nate the Great (Licensed by TRW); Free Speech Zone (Austin Film Festival Semifinalist); Joe Schmoe Saves the World (NAMT, ASCAP/Dreamworks Workshop); and Liberty Inn (LA Ovation Award nomination, Best Music/Lyrics). His award-winning plays Weïrd and A Roz By Any Other Name are both published in “The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008.”

As an actor, he originated the role of Marcus Off-Broadway in Murder for Two, and recently played Liberace in the one-man show Liberace! Other acting highlights include Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol (National Tour), The History Boys (Ahmanson), The Lieutenant Inishmore (Mark Taper Forum), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Cincinnati Playhouse) and the world premieres of Shrew!, The Prince of Atlantis, and Dr. Cerberus (South Coast Rep). TV/Film appearances include: Mom, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Hail, Caesar!, The Assistant (Lifetime). He lives in LA & NY with his husband and their miniature schanuzer, Hilde.