Ian Gaenssley

Stage & Screen

Theater Performances

Kimberly Akimbo

Role of Buddy

Feb 2015, Out Of Box Theater Company

In this critically acclaimed dark comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), the title character is a teenager with a rare disease that causes her to age several times faster than normal. By her 16th birthday, Kimberly looks more like her grandmother than her own peers. At a time when most young girls are celebrating the beginning of adulthood, she’s facing the end of her life. When Kimberly and her family flee their hometown under dubious circumstances, she finds herself re-evaluating her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a con artist of an aunt, her own mortality and — perhaps most terrifying of all — the possibility of first love.

The Pillowman

Role of Katurian Katurian

Oct 2014, Out Of Box Theater Company

Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, because some of his stories resemble recent child murders. When he hears that his brother Michal has confessed to the murders and implicated Katurian, he resigns himself to being executed but attempts to save his stories from destruction. The play contains both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, including the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother", which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.

Kiss of the Vampire

Role of Arthur (Nominated Best Supporting Actor, Metropolitan Atlanta Theater Awards)

Apr 2011, Process Theater Company

Shopping & F*cking

Role of Robby

Jul 2010, Process Theater Company

Music

Seven Envy

Writer, Guitars, Backing Vocals

2006-2008

Like Crashing Through Trees

Writer, Guitars, Backing Vocals

2003-2006