Ian Garrett is producer, designer, and administrator dedicated to innovative arts infrastructure. He is the Executive Director of the Fresh Arts Coalition (Houston, TX) and Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), a leader in the conversation on sustainability development and the arts. In 2007, he received the Richard E. Sherwood Award for emerging theater artists from the Center Theater Group (CTG) for the integration of ecologically sustainable practice into theater production.

Garrett currently serves as the lighting curator for Scenofest at the Prague Quadrennial, and is the resident designer for the Indy Convergence, an annual artistic open-space (Indianapolis, IN). He has designed over 100 productions, including Permanent Collection at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (2006 LA Weekly Theater Award for best lighting) and Song of Extinction with Moving Arts Theater (2008 LA Weekly Theater Award for Production of the Year). As a producer, his work includes the premier of Richard Forman and Michael Gordon’s What to Wear at REDCAT and Week 42 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays in Houston.

Garrett has served on the staff of Stages Repertory Theatre, DiverseWorks, CalArts, the Will Geer Theatricum Botancium, and L.A. Stage Alliance, an arts service organization with a membership of over 350 non-profit performing arts companies. For the past four years, Garrett has taught for the School of Theater at CalArts, including courses on production and management technology and sustainable practice.

Garrett received dual MFAs in Lighting Design and Producing from CalArts, and has a BA in Architectural Studies and Art History from Rice University. More info and a portfolio of his work is available at www.toasterlab.com and the CSPA’s website (www.sustainablepractice.org).

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