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Emmy-nominated Ryan O’Connell has joined the cast of Queer As Folk, Peacock’s reimagination of the hit British series of the same name from Russell T. Davis, as a series regular. He will also serve as co-executive producer and writer of the series. O’Connell will portray a pop culture nerd with cerebral palsy who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Writers Guild Award winner and Primetime Emmy nominee Ryan O’Connell has signed with CAA for representation in all areas. O’Connell is best known as the creator, writer, executive producer and star of Netflix short-form series, Special. Debuting on the streaming service in April of 2019, the comedy is…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development Accessible, a half-hour comedy from Special creator, writer and star Ryan O’Connell, Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak’s That’s Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where That’s Wonderful is under a deal. Written by O’Connell, Accessible is a half-hour “traumedy” that follows…

As he set out to develop Special, a short-form series that eventually wound up at Netflix, creator/star Ryan O'Connell was faced with a seemingly impossible task, encapsulated within a simple question: How does one sell a show centered on a gay, disabled lead? Based on a memoir by O'Connell, who began his career as a…

Ryan O’Connell’s series Special is a different kind of coming out story. In the Netflix comedy, O’Connell plays a version of himself. Both are named Ryan, both are gay and both have cerebral palsy. On top of all that, the TV-version Ryan doesn’t necessarily have to come out of the closet as gay — he has to come out of…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Special, a comedy series based on Ryan O’Connell’s part-memoir, part-manifesto I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. Starring, written by and executive produced by O’Connell, it hails from Jim Parson’s That’s Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros’ Digital Networks’ Stage…