Vernon actor part of award winners at Towne’s TV Fest

Sep 21, 2021 | 3:00 PM

Vernon’s Towne Theatre will host the 2021 TV Fest Sept. 24 and 25, which will feature some home-grown talent.

The event showcases projects meant to impress on the small screen in order to help bridge the gap between new content makers and the entertainment industry.

One of the award winners is Timberwood, a television pilot, that involves Ian Fisher of Vernon as a writer and actor.

Timberwood, which won the award for Best TV Pilot and runner-up for Best Comedy, was co-written by Fisher and AJ Vaage. The comedy also features Fisher and Vaage as camp counsellors.

Ian Fisher (Photo courtesy of IMBD)

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Fisher grew up in Vernon and is a 2008 graduate of the theatre program at Seaton Secondary. He attended the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre Program and then headed to Toronto and Los Angeles where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He is an alumni of the world famous comedy schools, Second City and UCB – Los Angeles – other alumni include Steve Carrell, Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Prior to the pandemic, Fisher regularly wrote and performed stand-up comedy around LA and Toronto. He also used to write stand up for Pauly Shore. As an actor Fisher has appeared on such Networks as Netflix, the CW, CBS, Global, City, History and more and had recurring roles on Covert Affairs (USA, Amazon Prime) and Between (Netflix Original).

In 2017 he won a FAVA award for Outstanding Screenwriting for the short film Yellow Lines, starring Fisher and Working Mom’s Dani Kind. His newest film, Two Roads, starring Michael Malarky (Vampire Diaries) wrapped in New Mexico in May 2021.

Fisher and Vaage are currently finishing up their first full length feature film and are beginning to shop it around to production companies and their goal is to shoot it in Canada if possible.

Fisher, who’s mother in Michelle Blais, also hosts a weekly podcast called Pilot Fighters on Spotify, where his co-host watch a different first episode of a TV show every week with a different guest from the entertainment industry.

Click here to find out more about the TV Fest at the Towne Theatre.