Ian Garrett is a producer and designer currently based in Los Angeles and is the Executive Director of The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), a non-non-profit arts infrastructure organization where he collaborates with others like the LA Stage Alliance, University of Oregon, York University, The Arcola Theater, EcoArtSpace, the Royal Society of the Arts, Diverseworks ArtSpace and others to work towards sustainability in the arts, ecological and otherwise. He received dual MFAs from California Institute of the Arts in Lighting Design and Producing and has his BA in Architecture and Art History from Rice University in Houston, TX. 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. He has also received the 2006 LA Weekly Theater Award for best lighting for Permanent Collection at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, was the lighting designer for 2008’s Song of Extinction with Moving Arts Theater, winner of the 2008 LA Weekly Theater Award for best production and is the resident designer with the Indy Convergence, an annual artistic open space in Indianapolis. As a producer he has worked on the premier of Richard Forman and Michael Gordon’s What to Wear at REDCAT, toured Torry Bend’s adaptation of Aimee Bender’s Loser to Prague and Marsian Delillis’ Growing up Linda, Katie Shook and Erik Ehn’s One Eye Gone and the upcoming At Sundown, a physical theater piece on aging and memory to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He also produced week 42 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 days/365 Plays for the Project’s Texas Network. He has formerly worked at The Public Theater, the Williamstown Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston and The Will Geer Theatricum Botancium. He currently teaches on technology in production and sustainable practice at the California Institute of the Arts. With the CSPA he has been featured in American Theater, DramaBiz, The Design Magazine, Inhabitat.com and has spoken at St. Louis University, Live Design International, and the annual convergences for the Theater Communications Group, DanceUSA and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.