Ron Nyswaner is a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Author, Activist.

Director/Writer (with Philip Dorling), Producer:  PREDISPOSED.

Feature film starring Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, and Tracy Morgan.  Producers:  Neda Armian, Ron Nyswaner, and BCDF Pictures.  World Premiere:  Sundance Film Festival, 2012.

Director, Co-Producer:  SHE’S THE BEST THING IN IT.

Documentary feature about the actor’s craft, featuring theater legend, Mary Louise Wilson.  Producers:  Neda Armian, Ron Nyswaner.

Writer, Executive Producer:  THE PAINTED VEIL.

Adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel.  Independent Spirit Award nomination, National Board of Review’s Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

Writer, Co-Producer:   SOLDIER’S GIRL.

Showtime Film.  True story of the murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell.  World Premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.  Peabody Award.  The film received three Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy nomination, a Television Critics Association nomination.  American Film Institute’s list of Ten Outstanding Television Events of the Year.

Writer:  PHILADELPHIA.

First major studio film to confront AIDS and homophobia, which won two Academy Awards and garnered for Nyswaner nominations for the Golden Globe, Writers’ Guild, BAFTA, and Academy Awards.  Directed by Nyswaner’s mentor, Jonathan Demme.

Director, Writer:  THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Independent Spirit Award nomination, Best First Feature.  With Keanu Reeves.

Writer:  

SMITHEREENS (first independent American film to premiere in Main Competition at the Cannes Film Festival).  MRS. SOFFEL, LOVE HURTS, GROSS ANATOMY (co-author).

Co-Producer:

STAR MAPS. Directed by Miguel Arteta.

Playwright:

OBLIVION POSTPONED. Regional and off-Broadway productions.

Author:

BLUE DAYS BLACK NIGHTS. Called “hilarious and uncompromising” by the New York Times.

Advisor:

Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs, Fundacion Toscano.  Has mentored screenwriters in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, Spain.  On the Advisory Board for the Woodstock Film Festival.

Activist:

Numerous awards for HIV/AIDS activism, including the Ryan White Youth Service Award.  Sponsor of the Nyswaner Film Archive/Salzman Collection, at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center, the fourth largest LGBTQ film archive in the United States.