Born in Sacramento, CA, the only child of Tom and Sharon Nicolls, Ryan discovered his passion for storytelling at Casa Roble High School in his sophomore year in a production of Agatha Christie's "Murder at the Vicarage". He attended American River College as an Applied Physics major before finishing with a B.A. in Theater and Dance at California State University, Fullerton. Ryan relocated from Los Angeles to New York City in 2010 where he studied at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater before ...