Ryan Kitley is an American actor born and raised in New Jersey. In 1990, he attended University of Dayton in Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. In 1994, he moved to Chicago, where he started taking improv classes at Second City and ImprovOlympics. In 1998, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Theatre School at DePaul. He lived and worked in Los Angeles from 2004 until 2010, before returning to Chicago.