Ian Yuri Gardner

BORN IN LONDON.,ENGLAND, AND EDUCATED IN WESTERN CANADA,

Ian Yuri Gardner has developed an extensive creative arts portfolio over the past 25 years.  His resume includes stage entertainment (performance and production), photography, creative writing, graphic design, desktop publishing, and numerous successful business, project and  leadership initiatives.  Featured in professional productions such as: 

Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway 
The Arts Club Theatre:  Dreamgirls and Hairspray 
The Vancouver Playhouse:  La Cage Aux Folles 
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines:  Lead revue singer and Featured entertainer

IAN IS A PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED VOCALIST AND CAPABLE MUSIC INSTRUCTOR.  

His well-developed musical and theatrical background has encompassed choral direction, vocal performance and instruction, script writing, theatre production, and direction.  He has given workshops to elementary, high school, and collegiate youth on musical theatre, mime, vocal performance and forum theatre and has produced a variety of creative arts fundraising project that have benefited organizations such as: 

Youth Community Outreach HepC & AIDS Society (YouthCO) 
Community Builders (Foundation) Benevolence 
The National Congress of Black Women Foundation, Umoja 
Peninsula Productions
The Black AIDS Network (BAN)