Ian is into RuPaul, shonen manga, and cooking large meals for small groups of people. He’s also an award-winning, internationally produced playwright. His works have been developed at the Powerhouse Theatre Festival (NY Stage and Film), PlayPenn, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Ashland New Plays Festival, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Company, City Theatre of Miami, the Garry Marshall Theatre, UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the New York, Philly, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the American Theatre Group’s Playwrights Lab, and a graduated member of PlayPenn’s playwriting lab, The Foundry. He was a 2019 Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, KS, and a recipient of a 2021 Independent Artist Fellowship from the NJ Council for the Arts. Ian lives at a boarding school with one husband and four cats: Lentils, Kimchi, Thomas, and Clementine.