We are excited and honoured to announce that Ryan McMahon is joining the Transatlantic Agency as a client of Samantha Haywood & Stephanie Sinclair. Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker & community activator originally from Treaty 3 territory (Couchiching First Nation). Armed with a degree in Theatre & as a graduate of the prestigious Second City Conservatory (Toronto), Ryan’s comedic storytelling style is fast paced, loose & irreverent as he explores the good, the bad & the ugly between Indian Country & the mainstream.
Since 2010, McMahon has recorded 3 National comedy specials (Welcome To Turtle Island Too, UnReserved & Red Man Laughing) & 2 taped Gala sets at the prestigious Winnipeg Comedy Festival. In 2012, McMahon became the 1st Native comedian to ever record a full mainstream comedy special with CBC TV (Ryan McMahon – UnReserved). Later that year made his debut at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, QC where he was named to the NEW FACES LIST at the festival. Ryan’s latest full length CBC comedy special, Red Man Laughing, aired Nationally on CBC Radio 1 in 2015. McMahon’s new live show, Wreck-On Silly Nation, is scheduled to tour across Canada in 2018. Ryan has written for the GLOBE & MAIL, VICE, CBC, CBC Indigenous, APTN among others.
McMahon’s latest major project, the documentary, “Colonization Road,” just had its worldwide premiere at the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival and was sold to CBC TV and it aired Nationally in January 2017. Currently, Ryan is producing Season 6 of his hit podcast, Red Man Laughing, and when not busy with that he is also a host with the CANADALAND franchise, co-hosting, Canadaland Commons, a podcast about politics in Canada.
This week Ryan appears on Turtle Island Reads, discovering the best of Canadian Indigenous writing. He is defendingSon of a Trickster by Eden Robinson.
On the book side of things: Ryan’s hotly anticipated debut work of fiction THE GREAT NDN PARADOX is forthcoming from Robin Egg’s Books of Arsenal Pulp Press in October 2018.
Plus he is writing his first book of nonfiction based on his popular column with VICE called Canada 2167 which peels back the layers on the last 150 years in Canada and explores the path to the next 150 years in Canada. Find out more about the VICE series at: Video.vice.com/what-i-think-canada-should-look-like-150-years-from-now.
2167: Future Reason For This Country will be available for submission in late 2017/early 2018. For rights inquires contact: samantha@transatlanticagency.com
Visit his website to learn more: ryanmcmahoncomedy.com