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Enjoy a dose of my playwriting process,
writing confessions, and all the mess in between.

Hey there!

I’m Ian Skatu. I write stubborn plays that push too far.

What does that mean? Well, I’m not here to offer neat stories or clean resolutions. I’m here because sometimes survival doesn’t look like healing and healing doesn’t always look all too woo woo. Sometimes, it looks like bruises, broken promises, and a kinda sorta fractured beauty that doesn’t know when to stop.

People say "write what you know."
I say "write what you fear."

Fear forces you into places the mind resists but the body remembers. It makes you write characters who cling too tightly, push too hard, love too violently. It tears open timelines, fractures form, and shatters structure. And all that’s left is raw, stubborn, human truths.

After all, we’re in the business of telling stories. So tell a goddamn story! And don’t be boring about it.

This is where I’ll share my process, my scenes, my almost unfiltered thoughts that refuses to behave. It is ultimately a reflection from writing plays that don’t like following rules — emotional, structural, or otherwise.

If you're looking for nice, warm, fluffy, stories, that makes you feel like this:

You won’t find it here.

But if you’re looking for something messy, something that crawls under your skin, something so painful yet beautiful that makes you feel likes this:

Then welcome to Ian Skatu’s Stubborn Plays That Push Too Far.

You have been warned. Good luck.

What do you wanna see here? Tell me!