Ryan Omega casted the daily extras for the hit show Medium and works on the production side of the office under Jeff Olan Productions. He is a native of Vallejo, CA . He served in the Domestic Peace Corps (Americorps/VISTA) and served as Interim Executive Director of Filipino-American Social Services working on youth issues in the political arena at the age of 18. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English, where he guest lectured on Japanese animation in Japanese cinema, studied creative writing under the author Maxine Hong Kingston and wrote his senior thesis on video games as a form of literature.
He published the books "Anime Trivia Quizbook Vol 1 and 2" during the height of the Pokemon-craze. His career spans from playing video games and watching cartoons for a living to organizing anime and game conventions to running operations for a Silicon Valley based security computer company.
Ryan moved to Los Angeles for a change of pace and helped produce music videos, commericals and informercials, when he met Jeff Olan in a casting seminar at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival (VIFFI). He has worked for Jeff Olan Casting ever since. He had also joined the board of VIFFI as Secretary for three years to promote independent filmmaking.
Aside from casting, Ryan works on producing his own projects, publishes books, enjoys boffer LARPing (as seen in the movie, Role Models) and occasionally performs improv at live events. As a practitioner of psychic arts and an intuitive consultant, it was no coincidence that he was asked to work on Medium. Ryan also serves as an occult specialist and technical advisor on metaphysical activities for others, including writing in the past for the Examiner as a paranormal expert.
Ryan's side projects include creating the web comedy sketch series "Hurry Up and Wait" found on www.hurryupandwait.tv and serves on the Executive crew of Sypher Arts Studios coordinating the Labyrinth of Jareth Labyrinth of Jareth , the largest annual masquerade ball in North America.
He also designed the Jeff Olan Casting website from scratch that you are looking at right now.