Ian Doescher

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Ian Doescher
Ian Doescher Empire reading2.jpg
At Powell's Bookstore in Beaverton, Oregon. Doescher (center) does a reading of The Jedi Doth Return with former classmate Anne Huebsch (left) and audience member Micah Read from Lincoln High School (right). July, 2014.
Born1977 (age 47–48)
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Education Yale University (BA)
Yale Divinity School (MDiv)
Union Theological Seminary (PhD)
Notable works William Shakespeare's Star Wars
SpouseJennifer Creswell
Children2
Website
iandoescher.com

Ian Doescher /ˈdɛʃər/ (born 1977) [1] is an American fiction writer, best known as the author of the plays in the William Shakespeare's Star Wars series, parodic retellings of George Lucas's Star Wars films (1977–2005) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare.

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Personal life

Doescher has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. He lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Oregon.

Doescher claims to be only a Star Wars and Star Trek fan and not well versed in other science-fiction literature. The idea for WSSW came to him when he went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland shortly after reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies . After the first draft was shown to Lucasfilm, their response was "We like this and it’s fun, but we’d like to see Ian do more with it. Go ahead and have some more fun with it, and go out of bounds of movie itself", so he rewrote it. [2]

Publications

Literary works

Non-literary works

On February 11, 2019, Doescher wrote the lyrics for the Star Wars parody of the Hamilton song "My Shot" for a YouTube video on his YouTube channel. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Huffington Post Mini Bio
  2. ↑ Portlandmonthly
  3. ↑ "William Shakespeare's Dracula". Amazon . Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "William Shakespeare's Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde". Amazon. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "Bobby Bauman: A Novel". Amazon. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Doescher, Ian (February 11, 2018). ""My Shot" - the Star Wars/Hamilton Parody". YouTube. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
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