Ian Wexler is a director, comedy writer, video editor, and camera assistant, living in Brooklyn, NY.

His recent short film 4th Dementia played the festival circuit in 2024-2025, with screenings at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Nantucket Film Festival, among others. It won Best Screenplay at Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival, and is now available to stream for free on Omeleto.

The film is an absurd, multiverse dramedy about Nellie, a woman with Alzheimer’s who journeys through alternate dimensions, encountering her many families who she doesn’t recognize, in search of her loving husband Lou. It stars Caroline Aaron (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Sleepless in Seattle, Crimes and Misdemeanors) and Bill Irwin (Interstellar, Legion, Rachel Getting Married).

Ian is a founding member of Dinner For One Comedy, a sketch comedy troupe and film production company who have been performing in NYC and sketch festivals across the country for more than a decade. They have taken the stage at UCB, Second City New York, Asylum NYC, The PIT, Chicago SketchFest, Toronto Sketchfest, NY SketchFest, and HellYesFest New Orleans. Their videos have been featured on Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, College Humor, and MTV.

Ian grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, where he started making movies at the ripe young age of 13. Around that time he fell in love with Monty Python, Spinal Tap, and Faulty Towers, which he still considers to be the funniest things in a long history of funny things. He studied film directing in Boston at Emerson College, the birthplace of Dinner For One Comedy, and he now lives in Brooklyn where he spends his free time watching artsy European movies and cultivating his illustrious beard, which he also started growing at the ripe young age of 13.

His other film & TV credits include: director/editor of all 6 episodes of Dinner For One's independent TV series Life Sucks, and co-director of the Comedy Central original series Road To Hollygrove guest-starring Maria Bamford and Kerri Kenney. Additional credits include: Unorthodox (Netflix), The Secrets of Hillsong (Hulu), Growing Up (Disney+), Of Medicine and Miracles.