T. Ryder Smith
T. Ryder Smith (born March 9, 1958) is an American actor. A native of New York state and long-time resident of New York City, he appears frequently on stage, particularly in avant-garde theatre works, as well as on TV, film, and as a voice actor. Stage. Smith has appeared on Broadway in the world premiere of "Oslo", the original American company of "War Horse", both at Lincoln Center, and in the 2009 revival of "Equus" opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths. Other work in NYC includes the world premieres of plays by Richard Foreman, David  Greenspan, Katori Hall, Christina Masciotti, Marianna Ellenberg, and Anne Washburn, and in Sarah Ruhl’s "Passion Play" and "Dead Man's Cell Phone". Regional theatre work includes world premiere productions of plays by Sarah Ruhl, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Charles Mee, Tanya Barfield and Doug Wright, work with Behind the Wire’s Theatre of War, and the 2007 collaboration with artist/activist Paul Chan, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and the public-arts presenters Creative Time to perform Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" in the outdoor areas of New Orleans which had been most devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Video  of the production and Chan’s set pieces are in the permanent collection at MOMA. Film, television and voice. Film and TV work includes appearances in the film "The Report," TV guest-appearances on "Bull""," "Hunters", "The Blacklist", "Elementary", "Nurse Jackie", "Blue Bloods", "Law & Order SVU" and the PBS American Experience series "The Abolitionists"; playing "The Trickster" in the cyber-horror film "Brainscan"; Marie Losier's experimental short film "The Ontological Cowboy", shown at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, experimental short films by Rachel Rose, Redmond Entwistle, and Lawrence Krauser, and as himself in "MindFLUX", a documentary about theatre-artist Richard  Foreman. He supplies the voices of Baron Ünderbheit and Otto Aquarius on the cartoon TV series "The Venture Bros.", the voice of Sander Cohen in the videogame "BioShock", (and the "BioShock Infinite" DLC "") and appears in the annual Bloomsday readings of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" on Pacifica radio station WBAI.