Ian is a co-creator, script producer and writer on the Channel 7 Endemol Shine Banks series RFDS. His TV writing credits include RFDS the Awgie nominated SBS series On The Ropes, Foxtel's Upright, Spirited and Slide, Channel 10's The Wrong Girl & Offspring, and ABC's The Moodys. Ian adapted and directed Defender, a segment of Tim Winton's The Turning, which was produced by Robert Connolly and was AACTA nominated for best direction. He co-wrote and acted in the AFI award nominated short Water, and wrote and directed the Sydney Film Festival selected short film A Parachute Falling in Siberia which won an Australian Writers Guild Award and received an AFI award nomination. His play Between Two Waves premiered at Griffin Theatre Company in 2012 where Ian was a member of the inaugural Griffin Studio. It was awarded Belvoir Theatre Company's 2013 Phillip Parsons Fellowship. As an actor Ian graduated from WAAPA in 2005. Ian's Film and TV acting credits include Netflix's Clickbait, The Wrong Girl, True Story, Dead Lucky, ABC's 8MMM, The Moodys, A Moody Christmas, Rake, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, the HBO series The Pacific, and film Killing Ground (MIFF 2016, Sundance 2017).