Ryan Halprin

Senior Vice President, Production

Ryan is Senior Vice President of Production at Rideback where he works on both film and TV projects. He is currently producing the live action series adaptation of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER for Netflix, and the live action feature adaptation of LILO & STITCH for Disney. Since joining the company in 2012, he has also overseen production on the LEGO MOVIE franchise of animated films at Warner Bros on behalf of Rideback, and co-produced the DEATH NOTE manga adaptation for Netflix.

Ryan hails from Harvard where he studied Neurobiology and Economics, but spent most of his time pursuing the arts. He spent four years performing with the cast of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, America’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization. Outside the Pudding he performed, choreographed and directed slightly less burlesque productions at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge among other places on campus. In the summer of 2011, Ryan tested the LA waters with an internship at Lin Pictures. After one more year in the northeast scanning brains, he decided he couldn’t stay away any longer.

Ryan was born in Chicago and grew up in Palo Alto, CA. In his spare time he choreographs couples’ first dances at weddings and plays soccer.