John Pierson, known also by the

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Jughead and by the

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Ian Pierce, is an American musician, writer, actor, and podcaster.

Biography

In 1986, Pierson and

Ben Weasel Benjamin Foster (born April 8, 1968), also known as Ben Weasel, is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Screeching Weasel. Early life Foster was born in 1968, and was raised in Prospect Heigh ...

co-founded the

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band

Screeching Weasel Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band consisting of Ben Weasel (vocals), Mike Kennerty (guitar), Mike Hunchback (guitar), Zach "Poutine" Brandner (bass) and Pierre Marche (drums) founded in 1986 by Ben Weasel and John Pierson (music ...

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. Pierson played guitar for the band until 2006. In 2002, Pierson formed the acoustic

pop-punk Pop-punk (also punk-pop, alternatively spelled without the hyphen) is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with power pop or pop music, pop. It is defined by its fast-paced, energetic tempos, and emphasis on classic pop s ...

band Even in Blackouts, with which he has recorded four albums and one EP and toured several times. Pierson is also a playwright and novelist, usually writing under the name Ian Pierce. He formed a theater production company, Hope And Nonthings, in 1990 and produced ten plays before joining the

Neo-Futurists The Neo-Futurists are an experimental theater troupe founded by Greg Allen in 1988, based on an aesthetics of honesty, speed and brevity. Neo-Futurist theatre was inspired in part by the Italian Futurist movement from the early 20th century. Ori ...

; he has been performing in their long-running show ''

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind ''Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes'' (Too Much Light or TML) was the longest running show in the history of theater in Chicago and was the only open-run Off-Off-Broadway show in New York. The show was originally perf ...

'' since 1996. His semi-fictitious ''Weasels in a Box'' (2005) is a novelization of Screeching Weasel's history. His last novel, ''Last Temptation of

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'', appeared in October 2011.

References

External links

Jughead's Basement Podcast
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American punk rock guitarists Guitarists from Chicago American male guitarists Screeching Weasel members {{US-punk-rock-guitarist-stub American male actors