Ian Short

Ian is a founding member of Available Light Theatre and a BFA graduate of Otterbein University. He is an adjunct theatre professor at Otterbein University and CCAD, has taught scene study and monologue classes for Broadway2LA and has taken workshops from the New York based SITI Company. Some of his recent AVLT roles have been in Leaving the Atocha Station, bobrauschenbergamerica, Pride and Prejudice, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Life and Death of Richard the Third and Merrily We Roll Along. He has performed locally with CATCO, BalletMet, Gallery Players, Actor’s Theatre, Red Herring and has been the director at Gahanna Community Theatre for ten years. While living in New York, Ian performed at the Lincoln Center and was a guest artist on One Life to Live and the CBS series New York News. His film roles include Charlie in Graduation, Reverend Stevens in The Christmas Spirit, a Hallmark movie starring Nicolette Sheridan and Olympia Dukakis, Bill Ireton in The Blunderer with Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel, and the principal role of Sam Thorne in The Echo Effect, where he co-starred with Michael Jai White.

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October 31, 2017 — Get Ready for How We Got On
February 6, 2016 — Thom Pain is mesmerizing – Columbus Dispatch
January 13, 2016 — Permission (from playwright Mark Snyder)
December 20, 2015 — 7 Lessons I learned in 2015
December 16, 2015 — Matt Slaybaugh: Thank you, 2015.
November 5, 2015 — Matt Slaybaugh on Adapting James Joyce (#2)
October 30, 2015 — Matt Slaybaugh on adapting James Joyce (#1)
October 3, 2015 — The monkey’s helping me with rewrites
October 3, 2015 — Dedalus work all around
September 27, 2015 — A little moment work