Ryan Gibbs

Ryan B. Gibbs is a Director, Producer, and Stage Manager who has a 20-plus-year theatrical career. From being in School Plays to working on Broadway Shows and almost every step in between. Broadway and National Tour credits include: Rent, Wicked, Avenue Q, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Drowsy Chaperone, School of Rock, Chicago: The Musical, and Mary Poppins (to name a few).

As well, as Production Supervising the Austrian and Japanese Companies of Mary Poppins. He was Assistant Director on the 20th Anniversary Tour of RENT. Ryan has worked directly “in the room” for such creatives and producers as The Disney Theatrical Group, Jason Moore, Casey Nicholaw, John Tiffany, Cameron Mackintosh, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Locally Ryan has worked for the Fulton Theatre, The Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, Franklin and Marshall College, Sight and Sound Theatres, Totem Pole Playhouse, and many others. Outside of theater, Ryan has worked on the Rock Lititz Campus as a Program Manager for Atomic Design. Currently, Ryan serves as the Producing Artistic Director of the Totem Pole Playhouse. Ryan served as the Artistic Director of the Allenberry Playhouse for three seasons and was a founding member of the Lancaster-based theatre company The Reverie Acting Company. For 4 years Ryan was a Producer for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS where he produced work for such Broadway Legends as Jerry Mitchell, Chita Rivera, and Bernadette Peters.

Ryan is a graduate of Kennard Dale high school (Go Rams!) and Marywood University (Go Pacers!) Along with his wife, Ryan runs a nostalgia retail experience called Retrosplat! and a Theatre coaching and consulting company called Gibbsology.

Ryan is currently working as The Producing Artistic Director of the Totem Pole Playhouse in Caledonia State Park. He lives in Lancaster with his wife (Amy) his sons (Anderson and Benjamin) and his cat (Gumbo).