Ryan Silbert is an Academy Award®-winning producer, writer, and the founder of Origin Story Entertainment. His work spans film, television, audio, and immersive media, with projects recognized by the Academy Awards®, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Berlinale, and the Canadian Academy of Film & Television.

Silbert co-created the New York Times best-selling Alliances series with Stan Lee and oversees the RomeroVerse horror label, under which he is producing the Amazon MGM Studios sequel to Night of the Living Dead with director Nikyatu Jusu and producers Roy Lee, Will Smith, and Christine Romero. His audio drama The Coldest Case, produced with James Patterson Entertainment, is in its second season and is a global Audible bestseller as well as a recipient of two Signal Awards and multiple Audie and Ambie nominations for Best Audio Drama. His film credits include the Oscar-winning short film God of Love, Julius Onah’s debut feature The Girl is in Trouble, and Holly Zausner’s Unsettled Matters. He is producing Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon at Lionsgate with Vertigo Entertainment and writer/director JT Mollner; and developing several documentary series for Topic Studios.

Silbert earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with honors from Cornell University. He remains an active member of the Cornell community, serving on the Trustee-Council Administrative Board, the Communication Department Advisory Board, and the Alumni Advisory Board.

As an educator, Silbert lectures on producing and storytelling at institutions including New York University, Quinnipiac University, and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. At Rutgers, he teaches Introduction to Producing, a course that explores the producer’s role from development through distribution, emphasizing practical skills and creative collaboration.