Ian has been a theatre producer since 1989.
Productions include: the West End musical Blues in
the Night with Stephanie Lawrence, Anthony
Shaffers Sleuth , Simon Grays Hidden Laughter,
Inside Job, Double Edge, Same Time Next Year with
Gemma Craven, Ray Cooneys Funny Money and
Donald Churchills Moment of Weakness starring Liza
Goddard and Christopher Timothy. Ian also produced
Murder by Misadventure starring Gerald Harper and
William Gaunt, which transferred to Londons
Vaudeville Theatre, and Joe Ortons Loot also at
Londons Vaudeville Theatre, which subsequently
toured with Michael Elphick and Letitia Dean.
Other productions include: Terence Frisbys Funny
About Love starring Stephanie Beacham and Sean
Maguire, The Adjustment starring Stephanie Powers
and Michael Brandon, Dusty - the Musical, four Alan
Ayckbourn plays - Relatively Speaking with John
Challis and Sue Holderness, Time and Time Again,
Taking Steps and Confusions; Nobodys Perfect
starring Stephanie Beacham and Simon Williams, the
musical Barnum , Richard Harris Stepping Out, a
new comedy Youre Only Young Twice, Simon
Williams Nobodys Fool, Henry James Daisy Miller
with an all-star cast, two productions of William
Douglas-Homes The Kingfisher, the first with
Rosemary Leach and Francis Matthews, the second
with Honor Blackman and Francis Matthews, and a
new adaptation of Jerome K Jeromes Three Men in
a Boat.
In 2005, Ian co-produced the much critically-acclaimed
revival of Christopher Hamptons The Philanthropist
with the Donmar Warehouse, for which Simon
Russell Beale won the Evening Standard Award for
Best Actor.
Recent productions are: Visiting Mr Green starring
Warren Mitchell, which toured the UK and enjoyed a
successful West End run; Brief Lives with Roy
Dotrice, a new adaptation of The Hound of the
Baskervilles with Peter Egan and Philip Franks,
Deceptions with Michelle Collins, Noël Cowards A
Song at Twilight with Peter Egan and Belinda Lang,
Our Man in Havana with Simon Shepherd and
Norman Pace, Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut,
Present Laughter with Robert Bathurst and Belinda
Lang, Quartet with Timothy West and Susannah York
and in the West End at the Duchess
Theatre, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes with Peter
Egan and Robert Dawes and most recently a critically
acclaimed production of William Douglas Homes
The Reluctant Debutant starring Jane Ashe.
