A little bit about me...

C. Ryanne Domingues was born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree from Bloomsburg University while working on various productions with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Following graduation and a year-long directing and dramaturgy internship with Portland Stage Company, she spent six years in Philadelphia working for a variety of local theatres, including The Wilma Theater and Plays & Players Theatre. During this time, she also co-founded and served as the Producing Artistic Director of Simpatico Theatre, where she directed a variety of shows whose themes reflected the company’s mission to encourage active dialogue that promotes positive social change in the community. During this time, she also participated in the 2008 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab (under her legal, maiden name Carol Laratonda) and the La MaMa Umbria International Symposium for Directors.

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Ryanne received her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine in 2013. While there, she had the opportunity to assistant direct at South Coast Repertory, California Shakespeare Theater, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. She then went on to direct the world premiere of Assistants, a show that received various awards and accolades at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival and received an Off-Broadway run in June of 2019. After moving back to the East Coast, Ryanne returned to The Wilma Theater in the capacity of External Relations Director, where she spent two seasons in the field of fundraising, development, and donor relations. From September 2017 to June 2024, she was the Artistic Director of Passage Theatre, a professional company based in Trenton, NJ. In September of 2023, she joined the full-time faculty at Rider University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in their BFA Acting program.