An award-winning writer, director, and activist artist, Ryen McPherson grew up in Southern California, shooting skateboard films, low budget music videos and punk rock shows before dropping out of college to form his own activist art collective at the age of 18. A few years later, he started his first creative agency in Las Vegas, NV.

With his trademark style of guerrilla filmmaking and brazen conceptual pitches, McPherson has since written and directed music videos, documentaries and commercials featuring some of the biggest brands and musical acts in the country as well as directing festival live streams and producing experimental theater pieces. He has also toured extensively with Billy Strings across the US and Europe and in 2024 wrote and directed a musical stage adaptation of “O Brother Where Art Thou?” featuring Tim Blake Nelson and T Bone Burnett.

In his free time, McPherson hops freight trains, reads voraciously and stays politically active in the Deep South.