Ryan Glista

Filmmaker & Digital Producer

Ryan Glista is a multi-disciplinary video artist and creative director creating large-scale, narrative-driven immersive experiences at the intersection of live performance and new media. His work spans immersive video direction, music production, photography, and projection design, and has been presented at venues and festivals including the Boston Museum of Science, LUMA Festival, WNDR Museum, and Burning Man Festival.

Recent collaborations include projects with Tony-nominated choreographer Jennifer Weber, Billboard-charting band Sammy Rae & The Friends, and Carolyn Paine’s Nutcracker Suite & Spicy at the Wadsworth Atheneum. His work has screened nationally and internationally, earning multiple awards including a Regional Emmy Award, a Telly Award for Immersive Performance, and honors from the Boston Underground Film Festival and the Connecticut Art Director’s Club.

Ryan currently leads immersive video installations at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and RiseUP for Arts, directing the Digital Stage program and projects such as Magic Mural - the largest projection installation in New England, Lumaria at The Warner Theatre, and Stories of Queer Love, a multi-channel dance video installation.

He has also worked as a video producer and teaching artist with theaters, arts organizations, and non-profits across the northeast, and teaches film and multi-channel media production at the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, where he earned his BA in Film and MFA in Digital Media & Design. Outside of his video work, his personal music and photography work focuses on intimacy and the emotional interior of human experience, shaped by his perspective as a queer artist.