Ian Garrett is an artist, designer and producer from Los Angeles. He studied architecture and art history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, 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 went to the California Institute of the Arts to complete dual MFAs in Lighting Design and Producing. Ian is currently collaborating with the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, the new Arts Earth Partnership, and others to create sustainable, ecological and otherwise, infrastructure in the Los Angeles performance community and recently received the Richard E. Sherwood award for emerging theater artists from the Center Theater Group (CTG) to be used for the integration of ecologically sustainable practice into their production. With Miranda Wright he is the founder of the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, a start-up for the development of sustainable best practices in the arts. More information can be found at his website: www.toasterlab.com