Ian Garrett
Executive Director
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

Ian Garrett is the executive director of The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA). Ian is currently collaborating with the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, the Green Theater Initiative, Arcola Theater, and others to work towards sustainability in the arts, ecological, and otherwise. He received the 2007 Richard E. Sherwood award for emerging theater artists from the Center Theater Group (CTG) to be used forming a working relationship consulting with CTG on the integration of ecologically sustainable practice into their production. He teaches sustainable theater and management technology courses at the California Institute of the Arts and has been featured in American Theater, DramaBiz, and The Design Magazine and has spoken at The Central School for Speech and Drama, St. Louis University, and the Indy Convergence. He studied architecture and art history at the Rice University in Houston, but has since come to work in live performance and installation art. After working with companies in Houston, New York City, and Los Angeles he came to the California Institute of the Arts to complete dual M.F.A.s in lighting design and producing.

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