Ryan-Patrick McLaughlin, (RP) is the former Manager of Strategic Advancement at Studio Theatre and serves on National New Play Network's Strategic Planning Committee. As the former Producer-Residence at National New Play Network, he focused on data-driven program evaluation and equity, diversity, and inclusion. At Flanagan Theater Projects RP served as the Producing Associate on the 2018 Women's Voices Theater Festival, leading International Women's Voices Day, a coordinated effort between the Festival, National New Play Network, and New Play Exchange garnering more than 275 readings of unproduced plays by women on the anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington. He has also served as the Project Coordinator for Triple Play, a national research project with the Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area developing and executing new models for creating and sustaining substantive conversations among theatres, audiences, and artists. RP came to D.C. as the Artistic Fellow at Shakespeare Theatre Company and received his BFA in Theatre from Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.