He made his debut in professional theatre with the musical Godspell directed by Joel Furtado and staged by St. Michael's Parish, Mahim.

After working for 19 years as a senior marketing professional in the corporate world, he quit his job in 2009 to follow his passion for acting full-time.

"A difficult play to tackle even for professionals, much more so for students, Ivan Rodrigues who also directs, did well to keep the pace brisk and the action taut.

In Ivan Rodrigues and Nilufer Charna, Bombay theatre has discovered two young talented actors with great potential.

Both Ivan and Nilufer excelled, their voices and facial expressions picking up the cues from where the other had left, to give us phases of poetry in theatre.

Ivan Rodrigues makes an excellent elder Krapp with shuffling feet, sharp bark like cries and semi-silent chuckles, enslaved to the clanging alarm clock slung around his neck".

Slow and deliberate, never letting his concentration slip, perfectly in character whether excited or vacant, he breathes life into the play".

Rodrigues has all the decrepitude of Krapp, shuffling and enfeebled, body racked by paroxysms of pain brought on by recalling the past, yet not without an ability to laugh manically at himself".

Over the years, Ivan has gained popularity amongst the youth for featuring in several Filter Copy, Dice Media and Arré web sketches on You Tube.

He has also voiced for the character of Feroze Modi in Amazon audibles Spot Dada directed by Riya Mukherjee and as Mr. Shah in Pitching Pyaar directed by Saad Khan Ivan is a professional interviewer and has interviewed many top CXOs and Business Leaders as part of the Economic Times Cutting Chai Stories as also The Brand Story.

Ivan's background as a senior management professional helps bring insight into the pulse of the audience and the profiled speakers and dignitaries.