Ian Harris

Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Ian

Ian is a writer, director, comedian and editor, whose career began after selling two, feature length comedy spoof screenplays at age 21. He has enjoyed much success as a stand-up comedian, with many TV appearances, including Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Comedy Central, and TWO, one-hour TV specials. At the age of 28, Ian wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, It Burns When I Laugh, in 8 days on 16mm film for $27,000! His films have played festivals worldwide, receiving numerous awards and accolades; Best Feature Film at the Seattle Underground Film Festival, Best Director award at the 48 Hour Film Project, to name a few, and have starred the likes of Chelsea Handler, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Hardwick, Bobby Lee, Steve Schrippa, and Tom Kenny. Ian has directed features, shorts, music videos, and many one-hour comedy specials for comedians, such as Ty Barnett and Dwayne Perkins, that have been seen on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Showtime and Starz. For nearly seven years, Ian worked as staff and freelance commercial editor for top level post companies such as Mad River Post and Union Editorial. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, where he also owns an MMA gym called Fight Science MMA.

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StandBy Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Drama Matthew, a simple, but well-read farm boy has left his farm for the first time in his nearly fifty year life. He now sits in a Nebraska airport on the verge of chasing his dream: moving to the furthest place from his home he can think of, New York City. Gripped with anxiety, about an unknown future and the ghosts of his past, Matthew just needs to figure out how to get off … StandBy.
Closure Budget: $10M - $30M | Mystery ⋄ Crime Glen Davidson, an abused, orphaned, child turned successful, true crime novelist, with one arm, becomes a Homicide Detective, Carla Jimenez’s top suspect, after the murder of a prominent Beverly Hills doctor’s wife. Battling pancreatic cancer, with only weeks to live, Glen must find a way to prove his innocence, write the last chapter of his most important book, and maybe find, Closure.
Thanks For Nothing Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Joe Carter is dying of cancer and for the first time has gathered his extremely diverse and very dysfunctional family together for Thanksgiving, to see them one last time before going out on "his terms". Thanks For Nothing is a heartfelt dramedy about love, loss, diversity, and dysfunctional family values. (Co-written with Claude Stuart)