Ry Russo-Young

Hannah Takes the Stairs

Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?

Release Date2007-08-22

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Charactersd Rocco

Vote Count52

The Color Wheel

JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.

Release Date2012-05-18

Charactersd Zoe

Vote Count51

Nuclear Family

Ry Russo-Young turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family. In the late 70s/early 80s, when the concept of a gay family was inconceivable to most, Ry and her sister Cade were born to two lesbian mothers through sperm donors. Ry’s idyllic childhood was threatened by an unexpected lawsuit which sent shockwaves through her family’s lives and continues to reverberate today.

Release Date2021-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Episode Count3

Vote Count6

Shrinking

Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?

Release Date2023-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count592

And Just Like That…

This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

Release Date2021-12-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count532

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger

Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.

Release Date2018-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count647

Everything Sucks!

It's 1996 in a town called Boring, Oregon, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage emotions in the VHS era.

Release Date2018-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count276

Sorry For Your Loss

The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw’s life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn’t know.

Release Date2018-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count43

Before I Fall

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

Release Date2017-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3527

Sweetbitter

Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to navigate the chaotically alluring, yet punishing life she has stumbled upon.

Release Date2018-05-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count66

PANIC

teen drama series based on Lauren Oliver's novel, about graduating seniors in a small Texas town who play a dangerous game of challenges for a cash prize, with the first season telling a complete story and leading to its cancellation after one season. The show stars Olivia Welch, Mike Faist, and Jessica Sula, and follows protagonist Heather Nill as she's forced to play the high-stakes game, confronting her fears and rivals like Dodge.

Release Date2021-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Sun Is Also a Star

Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

Release Date2019-05-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count619

Nobody Walks

A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.

Release Date2012-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count77

Call Her Alex

"Call Her Daddy" creator, host and executive producer Alex Cooper is at the top of her game, signing one of the biggest deals in podcast history. This revealing two-part series gives audiences a behind-the-scenes, intimate look at her journey and the defining moments that shaped her influential voice.

Release Date2025-06-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

You Wont Miss Me

A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.

Release Date2009-01-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

The Serena Variations

A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.

Release Date2024-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Marion

Three separate women play Marion in three scenes based upon Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO. The Marions are split up onto three separate screens.

Release Date2005-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

The Last Animal

Two sisters discover a 4000-year-old baby mammoth during their mother’s scientific expedition.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Orphans

Two estranged, twenty-something sisters reunite five years after the death of their parents, and soon revisit their treacherous history.

Release Date2007-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5