Ryan McCartan

Ryan Jerome McCartan (born June 14, 1993) is an American actor and singer. As an actor, he is known for his recurring role as Diggie Smalls on the Disney Channel sitcom Liv and Maddie, and for his role as Brad Majors in the 2016 Fox musical television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again. McCartan is also known as one half of the pop duo The Girl and the Dreamcatcher. McCartan also played Jason "J.D." Dean in the Los Angeles (2013) and the original off-Broadway (2014) versions of Heathers: The Musical. He also played Fiyero, the main love interest, in the Broadway production of Wicked.

Career 
McCartan began his career with a minor part in the stage version of Disney's High School Musical in 2007. In 2011 he won Best Performance by an Actor at the Jimmy Awards, given out by The Broadway League to the top performers in high school musical productions.

Starting in 2013 McCartan began playing the recurring role of Diggie on the Disney Channel comedy Liv and Maddie. In 2015 he starred in the direct-to-video film R.L. Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls. In 2016 McCartan was cast in the lead role of Brad Majors in the 2016 Fox musical television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again.

In May 2015 Dove Cameron announced that she and McCartan were officially forming a pop duo and would be releasing their first original song. In September 2015, they announced their group's name would be The Girl and the Dreamcatcher, and their first video was released in October 2015. Beginning September 11, 2018, McCartan made his Broadway debut as Fiyero in the musical Wicked. He remained with the show through May 12, 2019.

He also originated the role of Jason Dean in the original off-broadway cast of the musical Heathers. which ran till 2014 and the Los Angeles version in 2013. In mid-2018 he originated the lead role of Eddie Corbin in the new musical Mutt House at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and in August 2019 he played Lt. Cable in a concert version of South Pacific at the Aspen Music Festival.

He also starred in the role of Mac in the Roundabout Theatre Company's new musical Scotland PA. In November 2019 he made his solo show debut at Feinstein's 54 Below. He is set to join the cast of Frozen in February 2020.

Personal life 
McCartan was born in Excelsior, Minnesota. His father, Conn McCartan, was the principal at Eden Prairie High School in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, until he retired in 2018. Ryan McCartan attended Minnetonka High School in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where he was active in theater and choir.

McCartan began dating actress and singer Dove Cameron in  August 2013. He officially announced that Cameron was his fiancée on April 14, 2016, but their relationship ended in October 2016. As of 2017, he is dating youtuber Samantha Fekete. In 2019 Ryan stated in an interview he had been sexually abused by a theatre mentor when he was 12.

Filmography

Theater

Discography

Soundtrack albums

References

External links 

 Ryan McCartan musician website

Category:1993 births
Category:Living people
Category:American male singers
Category:People from Excelsior, Minnesota
Category:American male television actors
Category:21st-century American male actors
Category:21st-century American singers
Category:21st-century male singers