Drama Club creates brave musicals with LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and emerging artists. We challenge the status quo and build cultural understanding.
Drama Club started with Shannon & Scott
Shannon and Scott have been together since 2007, and married since 2011. Together they operate IMC, a live-event studio creating corporate theater and brand experiences. They also devote time to various non-profits, educational institutions, and political causes. They split their time between NYC, Maine, and San Francisco.
Shannon Morrison
Artistic Director
Shannon is a brave creator and a sought-after collaborator for Fortune 50 executives and Tony-winners alike. Passionate about generating empathy, he uses sass, wordplay, and wisdom to create captivating theater as an award-winning writer, composer, lyricist, director, and producer.
He leads creative development at Drama Club, and has worked on Broadway incarnations of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Movin’ Out, Legally Blonde, and most recently, the Pulitzer and Tony-Award winning musical A Strange Loop. Currently, Shannon is writing a new musical titled Ding-Dong! and is launching a new theater development experience, Drama Club Camp. Writing: Little Big Top (NYU Tisch); The Leading Man (Yale); Silence (Yale; John Golden Prize) Johnny Appleseed; The Aylee Inn; The Ascendants (with Stephen Barnett).
Alongside his husband and collaborator Scott Ihrig, he is also co-owner of IMC – a global top-10 experience production studio. As IMC’s Chief Creative Officer, he crafts bold, innovative brand experiences for Meta, Procter & Gamble, UPS, Novartis, and more. He is a graduate of Yale and NYU, and serves as a Trustee for Kents Hill School in Readfield, Maine.
Scott Ihrig
Executive Producer
Scott is a passionate liberal queer entrepreneur and the CEO of IMC, the experience studio he owns with his husband Shannon.
Scott produced The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes, founded a non-profit theatre in Iowa, and was an associate at a Minneapolis law firm.
A life-long activist, Scott works to expand human and civil rights, develop opportunities for the disadvantaged, and assist those in need. He served as board chair of TurnOut, a nonprofit that mobilizes volunteer communities to power queer and trans movements.
Scott loves a good spreadsheet, “cooks” with his phone, and travels with too many gadgets. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, he has a BA in political science from Grinnell College and graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School.
