
Acting
In 2010, Ryan landed his debut feature film lead role alongside punk icon Henry Rollins in the thriller In The House of Flies (TUBI). Alongside critical praise and international spotlight, Ryan's performance was awarded Best Actor in the inaugural Blood in the Snow Film Festival (2012). Ryan also received Best Actor Nomination in British Horror Film Festival (2013). Other roles/credits include Brad Skinner in Alert (FOX/Hulu), Mrs.America (FX), and Reign (The CW). His selected film credits include; In The House of Flies (Black Fawn Films/TUBI), Anything for Jackson (2020), and the award-winning short film Bosniak (CBC Gem).

June 1988…Summer Was Never The Same. In the House of Flies tells the story of young lovers whose lives are inadvertently changed forever. An innocent couple, Heather (Lindsay Smith) and Steve (Ryan Kotack) suddenly find themselves abducted. By whom? For what purpose? Alone, isolated and locked in an undisclosed, suburban basement, Heather and Steve find themselves pawns in a psychological, mind-game with their diabolical hosts. Surrounded by several mysterious and locked suitcases – each containing valuable clues to their very own survival - Heather and Steve must exploit what remains of their bruised intellect and depleting sanity, to escape the authority of their unidentified and brutal abductors (Henry Rollins, Ryan Barrett). From this day forward, summer was never the same

Years after having her newborn child stolen from her, Sam searches a world infested with infected users from the Social Redroom website. After befriending a young girl named Bean, Sam is captured and locked in a facility dedicated to finding a cure for the Redroom Virus. Trapped and tortured, Sam tries to escape the facility before an impending update on the Redroom site hits 100% and unleashes its final phase of the attack.

A male teenager planning to come out to his father imagines different outcomes while portraying them in different cinematographic genres in his mind.

Faced with deportation after their visas expire two Russian students in Canada must grapple with their conservative upbringings and feelings for each other as they try to find a way to stay.
