Ralph Kinnard (born Ralf Graessner, in Germany) is an American film director and acting coach.
Born in Germany, he studied at the Andy Geer theater school in Munich at age 19.
In 1995 he directed The Chorus Girl and The Donahue Sisters in the Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York.
He was director’s assistant in Transgressions, for the BBC London/ New York, and for the German film Sausages for Columbia Tris-Star (New York 1997); he also directed plays like Buscando a Strindberg, (Teatro Doris Wells, Caracas 2000) and in Shakespeare interactivo (Teatro Doris Wells, Caracas 2001).
In 2008, he directed his first feature A Mí Me Gusta [1], that entered the official selection of the Kolkata International Film Festival.