Rainbow Bridge

Katherine Walsh Ryan is Writer/Director/Editor/Executive Producer of Rainbow Bridge. She grew up outside of Chicago along Lake Michigan's shoreline; and now lives in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, in Shepherdstown, overlooking the Potomac River. She is proud of her son, Elliott E.W. Ryan, who worked as Director of Photography, and trained through Teen Filmmakers' Workshop since its inception. He returned from college in NYC to help with this production.

She is Founder and President of Ryan Film Institute and its Teen Filmmakers' Workshop which she teaches at a local university. Her short films have been Official Selections and Finalists at C2C Film Fest, Shepherdstown Film Festival, and WV Filmmakers Guild Film Fest.

Active in The Arts from a young age, she has been a theatre actor/scriptwriter/director; an award-winning magazine writer/editor/photographer; health care marketing executive; and filmmaker since she launched some of the earliest hospital videos for broadcast on newsworthy medical procedures and advancements in the 1980s.

Mrs. Ryan has degrees in Journalism (BA) and Strategic Leadership (MS) and is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC). She is also certified as a Master Gardener and Tree Master. She completed Leadership Berkeley in 2005, and is accepted into Leadership Jefferson's Class of 2016.

She has a life-long love of dogs, including Zoey the Goldendoodle pictured here, which she shares with her husband, Philip J.A. Ryan, M.D. Sadly, their daughter, Lindsay, actually has the audacity to prefer cats.