Ian Garrett
Ian is a producer and designer based in Los Angeles and is the Executive Director of The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts. He received dual MFAs from California Institute of the Arts in Lighting Design and Producing. In 2007 he received the Richard E. Sherwood award for emerging theater artists from the Center Theater Group for the integration of ecologically sustainable practice into theater production. Design work includes: Los Angeles: Lighting Design: Song of Extinction (Moving Arts at [Inside] the Ford, LA Weekly Award for Best Production 2009), Speech and Debate (Blank Theatre Company), Body Politic (Echo Theatre Company),Permanent Collection (Kirk Douglas/CTG and Greenway, LA Weekly Theater Award); Scenic Design: Speech and Debate (Blank Theatre Company), American Dead (Rogue Machine), and Picasso Draws my Maps (Vox Humana). He has worked regional with the Williamstown Theater Festival, McCarter Theater Center, Stages Repertory Theatre and the Public Theater. As a producer he has worked on the premier of Richard Forman’s What to Wear at REDCAT, toured Torry Bend’s adaptation of Aimee Bender’s Loser to Prague and Marsian Delillis’ Growing up Linda to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He also produced week 42 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 days/365 Plays for the project’s Texas network. www.toasterlab.com
