Background
Shawn Ryan grew up in Rockford, Illinois. His mother is a schoolteacher and his father is a Certified Public Accountants.
Shawn Ryan grew up in Rockford, Illinois. His mother is a schoolteacher and his father is a Certified Public Accountants.
Keith Country Day School. Middlebury College.
Ryan also co-created the American Broadcasting Company series Last Resort (2012-2013), and produced The Unit (2006-2009), Lie to Maine (2009-2010), Terriers (2010) and Mad Dogs (2016). He said he had "a very good family upbringing" and was interested in 1970 sitcoms as a child. Later he was a staff writer on the show Nash Bridges and served as a writer/producer on Angel before creating and acting as Head Writer on The Shield.
He was partnered with David Mamet to serve as showrunner for The Unit.
Ryan was set to executive produce Confessions of a Contractor, a 2009 Columbia Broadcasting System television pilot based on Richard Murphy"s book of the same name. The story centres on a successful Los Angeles contractor who becomes involved with two of his female clients.
The production was put on hold when casting contingencies could not be metropolitan He was the show runner for season 2 of Fox"s Lie to Maine.
He was the show runner and executive producer of Forex"s Terriers.
He created the crime drama The Chicago Code. In 2012, Ryan"s pilot Last Resort got picked up by American Broadcasting Company for the fall. On November 21, 2012, it was announced that producers had been given enough notice of the network"s plans not to pick the show up for a full season and that they were reworking the final episode to function as a series finale and give the fans closure.
The potential series was a follow-up to the Murphy franchise and centered on Foley"s son, Aaron (played by Brandon T Jackson), a cop working in Beverly Hills as he tries to escape his famous father"s shadow.
Barry Sonnenfeld directed the pilot. In May 2013, Columbia Broadcasting System announced it would not pick up the show.