A professional actor and musician, Ron Riley is a veteran of "many dusty, downtown productions,” he is a 1991 graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a B.F.A. with Honors and a 1991 Founders Award. Ron recently appeared in Orpheus at HERE Arts Center directed by Kristin Marting with music composed by Nikos Brisco and Café Antarsia at HERE’s Culturmart Festival. Ron was born in the Pacific Northwest and started playing guitar when he was ten years old. He studied jazz, classical guitar and is greatly influenced by Delta slide. Ron plays guitar, Greek tzouras and laouto in Café Hasani Ensemble.