Ryan Rumery

Ryan Rumery (he/him/they/them) is a musician, composer, sound designer, and music producer.

He most recently received the Tony Award for Best Sound Design of Play, Stereophonic. His other sound designs on Broadway are Between Riverside and Crazy, Be More Chill, The Lightning Thief, Fool for Love, and Thurgood, and in over 200 productions around the world. His music has been featured in theater, film, television, journalism, podcasts, and advertisements. including the films Food and Country (Sundance 2023), Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca Film Festival 2020, IFC), District 15 (Patagonia), When We Walk (Hot Docs 2019), Cooked: Survival by Zipcode (DOC NYC 2019), Afghan Cycles (Hot Docs 2018), Personal Statement (SXSW 2018), Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca Film Festival 2017), How to Let Go of the World (Sundance 2016), City of Gold (Sundance and SXSW 2015, IFC/Sundance), and, Apart (Golden Door International Film Festival 2016).

Television credits include MTV’s Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, BBC’s Escape to the Country, CNN’s Death Row Stories. He has scored multiple documentaries for The Washington Post, including the recent America’s Pandemic. Other web credits include music for Major League Baseball’s Epic Extras and sound designing the music video Violet Machine for The Casualty Process. The podcast How I Got Here features his theme music, and he is currently scoring a forthcoming historical non-fiction podcast as well as writing music for This American Life. Rumery was a composer in the 2017 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab for Documentary Film at Skywalker Ranch.