THE SHERWOOD ORACLE: Co-creator Mark Ryan on new card, deck and book box set – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/10/2024
THE SHERWOOD ORACLE | ©2024 Sterling Ethos

THE SHERWOOD ORACLE is a boxed set of book, cards and map. Co-created by Mark Ryan and John Matthews, with artwork by Anne Yvonne Gilbert, this is an oracle deck rather than a tarot deck, although there are similarities. Ryan has already co-created two highly popular tarot decks, THE WILDWOOD TAROT, also in collaboration with Matthews, with artwork by Will Worthington, and THE GREENWOOD TAROT, in collaboration with artist Chesca Potter. Additionally, Doncaster, England native Ryan is the writer and composer of a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a former member of the British Special Forces. He was the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BLACK SAILS star Mark Ryan chats about stunts and violence – Part 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/11/2014
Mark Ryan (Gates) in BLACK SAILS - Season 1 | ©2014 Starz

In Part 3 of our exclusive interview with Mark Ryan, who plays the quartermaster Mr.Gates on Starz’s new pirate drama BLACK SAILS, he discusses the show’s blend of invention and history, his upcoming autobiography and the new golden age of television. AX: In terms of the violence in BLACK SAILS, did you guys have a sword master? As someone who has been a sword master – on KING ARTHUR and Bob Anderson’s assistant on FIRST KNIGHT – did you get to do any swordfighting? MARK RYAN: There was a stunt team that did most of the swordfights. I would have […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BLACK SAILS star Mark Ryan gets his sea legs – Pt. 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/02/2014
BLACK SAILS - Season 1 poster | ©2014 Starz

Mark Ryan is – and has been – quite a few things. He’s an author, a creator of two Tarot decks (THE GREENWOOD TAROT and THE WILDWOOD TAROT), writer and composer of a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a former member of the British Special Forces. He was Bob Anderson’s assistant sword master on FIRST KNIGHT and sword master on KING ARTHUR. As an actor, Ryan originated the role of Magaldi in the premiere West End production of EVITA, then moved up to playing Che, was the first known Saracen Merry Man in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD and voiced Bumblebee […]Read On »


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