Richard Ryan is a Fight Director whose work has been seen worldwide. He has accumulated well over 300 credits major credits in Film, Theatre, Opera and TV.

Richard has been Swordmaster for many films, most notably TROY, THE DARK KNIGHT, STARDUST, SHERLOCK HOLMES and the recent sequel GAME OF SHADOWS, for which he choreographed the fights.

Richard has worked for many major companies such as The Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Ireland, Royal National Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, English National Opera, York Theatre Royal and the award winning Mercury Theatre, Colchester along with various West End shows and National Tours on projects encompassing a traditional diet of Shakespearean and Jacobean plays to new contemporary works to a live show in Thailand where he staged a battle with eighty actors and four Elephants.
Richard has extensive experience providing fight training for actors to perform fights with a multiplicity of weapons as 'Master-at-Arms' to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).