Ian Steaman is a reformed music industry executive turned award-winning screenwriter who worked with many chart-topping and critically acclaimed artists — from De La Soul, Queen Latifah, and Naughty by Nature to Kelis, Big Boi of Outkast, and T-Pain — while working at record labels in New York.

In the past year, Ian has completed stints in the writers rooms for the marblemedia linked shows, The Parker Andersons and Amelia Parker as Story Editor, as a Junior Story Editor on CBC’s Pretty Hard Cases and as Executive Story Editor on Take Note, a brand new family half-hour being produced for NBC’s Peacock TV.

Most recently Ian has also developed his own workplace comedy, DEADSTOCK in conjunction with CBC Television and is also working on TRAP CITY, an hour-long character drama which began its life while he was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre in the 2019 Bell Media Prime Time TV Program as well as SHINE,  an hour-long drama set in the world of the Toronto hip-hop industry. 

A prior participant in the CORUS Writers Apprenticeship program and winner of the 2020 Telefilm New Voices award at the Toronto Screenwriting Conference, Ian was also selected to be part of the 2021 Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative.

CONTACT IAN:
The Jennifer Hollyer Agency
assistant [AT] jenniferhollyeragency [DOT] com