Ian Brennan
Gender:	Male
Age:	33-34
Born:	Circa 1978
Title:	Actor Television producer Screenwriter
Years Active:	2000 - present

Ian Brennan (born 1978) is an American television writer, actor, director, and executive producer. He co-created Glee along with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, and has written 22 episodes so far. He was nominated for a 1999 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Finian's Rainbow at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Glee

The original idea of Glee was inspired by Brennan's own experience as a member of Prospect High School's show choir. It was supposed to be a film instead of a television series; Brennan wrote the first draft in August 2005, and completed it in the same year. The script, however, did not receive any interest from producers at that time.

Mike Novick, a friend of Brennan's and a television producer, later gave Ryan Murphy a copy of Brennan's script, as they are members of a same gym centre. Murphy himself joined show choir when he was young, and thus related to the script. Murphy and Falchuk suggested that Glee should be produced as a television show. Therefore, the three joined together and rewrote the script; the rewritten script was sent to FOX, and picked up by FOX immediately.

The three decided to write all of the episodes by themselves. Murphy and Falchuk became executive producers and directors of the show, while Brennan is a co-executive producer. Novick also became a producer of Glee.

He had a cameo appearance in On My Way as a judge at Regionals, playing the late night show host, Svengoobles the Vampire. He made his directing debut with the episode Props.

Episodes Written

Season One

• Pilot (With Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk)
• Showmance (With Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk)
• The Rhodes Not Taken
• Mash-Up
• Hairography
• Hell-O
• Bad Reputation
• Funk

Season Two

• Audition
• Duets
• The Substitute
• A Very Glee Christmas
• The Sue Sylvester Shuffle
• Blame It on the Alcohol
• A Night of Neglect
• Prom Queen

Season Three

• Asian F
• The Spanish Teacher
• Props

Season Four

• Makeover
• Dynamic Duets
• I Do
• All or Nothing (Episode)

Episodes Directed

• Props
• Dynamic Duets
• Naked
• Girls (and Boys) on Film

Trivia

• He is the narrator at the start of each episode's "So here's what you missed on Glee", and on GleeonFox's "Glee-Cap".
• He portrayed Svengoobles, a judge at Regionals in On My Way.
• He also made a cameo in Glee, Actually during Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah.
• He made his directorial debut in the Season Three episode Props.

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External link

• Ian Brennan at the Internet Movie Database
• Ian Brennan at the New York Times