Mark Ryan (2 March 1959[1] – 31 January 2011)[2][3] was an English guitarist who played in different punk bands during the late 1970s.
Ryan left school at sixteen, working in factories and dedicating his spare time to music.
He turned his interest in performance to the theatre and began a successful career as a writer for the stage based in Cardiff, Wales.
He is the author of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Told to Carl Jung by an Inmate of Broadmoor Asylum, first produced in 1998.
Ryan lived in Heath, Cardiff, Wales for many years until his death there on 31 January 2011, aged 51.