Erin Ryder

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Erin Ryder
Erin Ryder
Born
Erin Leigh Ryder

August 14, 1980 (1980-08-14) (age 43)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Occupationreality television presenter
television producer
Known forDestination Truth
Chasing UFOs
Myth Explorer
Websiteerinryder.com

Erin Ryder (born August 14, 1980) is an American television host, producer, adventurer, explorer and photographer. She was a co-executive producer and on-camera investigator for Syfy's reality television series Destination Truth, a weekly one-hour show filmed in remote locations around the world that explored some of the world's mysteries and unexplained phenomena. She also served as a host and co-executive producer on the series Chasing UFOs for the National Geographic Channel.[1]

Early life

Ryder was born in New York City and resides in Los Angeles, California.[2] She has degrees in communications and computer applications from State University of New York at Cortland, where she graduated with honors in 2002, along with an All-American title and a National Championship in field hockey.[3] She also earned a Master's degree in Television, Radio and Film from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Television

In 2004, she began working for the Olympics on NBC, producing the Open, Bumps, Teases and Promos for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She has featured on reality shows on Spike, Cartoon Network, ESPN, NBC, ABC, CBS, TLC, CW, VH1, MTV, STYLE, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic Channel.[4]

Ryder moved to Los Angeles in 2005 to continue her work on television. She worked as field producer at MTV on the Final Fu, a series that pit the practitioners of their respective martial arts styles against one another in a series of challenges and head to head fights. Ryder also assisted in producing the 32nd Daytime Emmy Awards.[4]

In 2007, Ryder returned to New York to start working as a producer on VH1's competition reality series, The (White) Rapper Show.[5]

In 2009, she was sent to Detroit to work on ABC's, Crash Course, a stunt competition reality series.[5] The same year she worked as a supervising producer on Cartoon Network's first live-action kids show, The Othersiders.[5] She also produced Dude, What Would Happen, an American live-action realty that aired on Cartoon Network for three seasons.

In 2010, Ryder produced MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, a live race featuring parkour practitioners competing in an urban environment.

In 2011, she worked in the field on The Discovery Channel's hour-long special The Supernaturalist, which followed magician Dan White as he travels through Nepal, in an attempt to discover real Tibetan magic. The same year, she worked on the documentary television series pilot, Finding Bigfoot that premiered on May 30, 2011, on Animal Planet. The show follows a group of investigators from the BFRO around the country in search of the Bigfoot.

Destination Truth

Ryder appeared in the second, third, fourth, and fifth season of Syfy's paranormal reality series, Destination Truth, as a producer and team member. Destination Truth was a weekly reality television series that first premiered on June 6, 2007, on Syfy. The program followed paranormal researcher Josh Gates around the world to investigate claims of the supernatural, mainly in the field of cryptozoology. Season three concluded on April 21, 2010, and holds the highest ratings ever for the series, which continued with a fourth season in 2010 and a fifth and final season that ended on August 14, 2012. Ryder was also the co-executive producer for the series.

Chasing UFOs

Ryder, Ben McGee and James Fox, star in the Nat Geo series Chasing UFOs, which premiered on Friday June 29, 2012. The show focuses on a team of investigators who set out to investigate reports of UFO sightings across the United States, frequently interviewing eyewitnesses. Ryder is also the co-executive producer for the series.[6]

Myth Explorer

In 2016 Ryder produced and starred in the web series Myth Explorer for Universal Studios. It follows her and her crew as they explore an island that doesn't appear on any official map—a rocky, skull-shaped jungle in the Indian Ocean where they say the story of King Kong originated. It centers around the 2005 film. The online series launched to promote the upcoming King Kong attraction: Skull Island: Reign of Kong. The series was promoted on SyFy and included an extra teaser on NBC.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "'Chasing UFOs,' New National Geographic Show, Reexamines Famous Flying Saucer Sightings (VIDEO)". HuffPost. June 28, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  2. ^ "Erin Ryder and her team research close encounters in 'Chasing UFOs'". Daily News. New York. June 29, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  3. ^ "SUNY Cortalnd Sports Information : Suny Cortland Athletes Honored at 2003 Athletic Awards Banquet" (PDF). Cortland.edu. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Characters". syfy.co.uk. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "Erin Ryder - About This Person - Movies & TV". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on October 19, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  6. ^ "Meet the Chasers | National Geographic Channel". National Geographic. Retrieved October 13, 2013.

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