Ryan M. Luévano (he/him) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, composer, conductor, professor of music and theatre critic in the greater Los Angeles area. He’s served as music director for Santa Ana College, The Colony Theatre, The Sierra Madre Playhouse and the Burbank Community Theater. Additionally, he’s worked as a professor of music at Woodbury University, Santa Ana College and Rio Hondo College. He is also a regular teaching artist at A Noise Within Theatre Company in Pasadena, on the board of directors on the Foundation for New American Musicals, a staff writer for Stage Raw, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. As a classical/jazz trumpet player he has performed with tournament of Roses Honor band, the Pasadena Pops Orchestra, the Crown City Symphony and in various musical theater productions. He performs regularly with his jazz band the Crown City Combo in various venues in the greater LA area. Most recently he was accepted as Artists-in-Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France for summer 2021, awarded the Denis Diderot Grant for his work on the musical 57 Bus and won the Full Circle Players’ New Works Play Festival in 2021 for his play La Lavadora.