Ian Doescher  Ian Doescher (born 1977) is an American fiction writer, best known as the author of the plays in the "William Shakespeare's Star Wars trilogy" series, "" (2013), "The Empire Striketh Back" (2014), and "The Jedi Doth Return" (2014), parodic retellings of George Lucas's "Star Wars" film trilogy (1977–1983) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare. Doescher has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. He lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Oregon. Doescher claims to be only a "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" fan and not well versed in other science-fiction literature. The idea for "WSSW" came to him when he went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland shortly after reading "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". After the first draft was shown to LucasFilm, their response was "We like this and it’s fun, but we’d like to see Ian do more with it. Go ahead and have some more fun with it, and go out of bounds of movie itself", so he rewrote it.