Ian McDonald is a writer, director, and educator from Portland, Maine. His plays have been produced or developed by Playwrights Horizon, Soho Rep, Theatre Masters, Walking Shadow Theatre Co., The Portland Stage Co., The Skylight Theatre Co., The Eagle Project, Moving Arts Theatre Co., The Blank Theatre, The Veritas Ensemble, American Repertory Theatre, The Great Plaines Theatre Conference, American Theatre for Higher Education, and The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, among other places.
He is the recipient of The Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, The Clauder Competition's Gold Prize, and a Playwriting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ian received his BA in English Literature from Loyola Marymount University, and his MFA in Playwriting from Brown University, where he also taught. He is currently a Playwright In Residence at The Skylight Theatre Co. in Los Angeles.
Other plays include The Boy Who LIved Forever, The Vikings Of Munjoy Hill, In The Boneyard, The Sexual Life Of Savages, Lone Wolf Blues, and Tot!. He is currently at work on his first feature film, Some Freaks.
He is represented at Industry Entertainment by Andrew Deane and Stephen Crawford.
Ian McDonald
Studios
Sorosis
Ian McDonald worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…