MY BIO

After leaving secondary school, Izzy knew that she wanted to make a career out of acting, and knew the best place for her to do that was at the Miskin Theatre. During her first tour of the facilities, Izzy envisioned herself performing in these industry style spaces and knew it was the perfect place for her to spend the next two years of education. A Levels would never be right for her, as all she wanted to do was act, and when she auditioned for the Theatre, she proved that. Izzy has never been as estastic as she was when she got accepted onto the acting for camera course, she had done so much stage work up until this point and wanted to practice and refnine showcasing her skills in front of a camera, and her first year on the course was the perfect way to culminate all those skills.

 

Izzy's first year on the acting for camera course consisted of the creation of many short films and scenes, starting off with a group project as a whole company, where everyone had a character group that they had to develop a short, devised scene with on the stimulus of  'The Great Indoors'. Izzy's first challenge whilst being at Miskin was creating the role of the ghost of a girl who's looking over her homeless sister, and she took a big risk taking on a mammoth of a character in her first process. The filming day for this was very challenging as it was Izzy's first chance to work with a crew on a set in a professional environment, she found it very demanding being on location for a long time with not much of a break and a quick turnaround, but it gave her more of an understanding of the other roles on set and how to stay professional in these scenarios. Alongside these short film projects, Izzy got the chance to explore theatre on camera and what it involves when she was cast as Amelia Barnard in the courtroom style drama Jury Service which she performed alongside the second year acting for camera company. This production was a great chance for Izzy to show off all the camera skills she had learnt in the first six months of the course and put them together with the theatre skills she had learnt in previous years, and as hard as it was to showcase a hightened naturalistic performance on screen, Izzy took lots of risks and loved the role she was chosen to play, and this ended up as her favourite production in her first year at Miskin! Another exciting project Izzy took on in her first year was creating her own short film based of an idea based on the comedic lifes of four univi, and she had the pressure of writing, directing, casting, managing locations and equipment and producing this idea on her own, and even though it was a challenge, Izzy created an incredible piece of film where she was able to present her acting and writing skills very well, and she loved getting to create her own production with some amazing actors which inspired her to attempt to make one on a bigger scale in her second year. These pieces of work led to her gaining a Distinction at the end of her first year!

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Going into her second year at Miskin, Izzy and the rest of the acting for camera company joined forces with the acting for theatre company to create the 2021 Christmas show Pinocchio, the first big production since the reopening of the theatre after COVID. Izzy was cast as Kitty, the comedic sidekick of Fox who is dumb and often gets belittled and berated by their boss, and she had lots of fun working on the voice and physicality of this character, as well as getting the chance to work in a double cast and as part of a duo. The whole show is based on larger than life performances and lots of energy to entertain audiences of all ages, and Izzy loved performing this show to sold out audiences and getting to explore and experiment on stage again after a year of having to internalise performances, this was a great chance for her to become more physical and exaggerated in her acting and show the directors her versatility. Izzy loves singing, dancing and musical theatre so to include this in her perfomance was exciting for her to show what she can do other than straight acting, and this is definitely Izzy's favourite process at the Miskin so far! As part of her final project on the acting for camera course, Izzy pitched to create her own short film, much bigger than the piece she created in her first year, and was eventually given the green light to write and produce her idea, based on sexual and physical harassment in the workplace. Unfortunately she did not get to create this film due to mental health issues but the hard work and preparation for this film, including writing sessions, rehearsals, schedules, showed that Izzy was determined and passionate about creating a piece that contains a strong message and finally getting her moment to showcase everything she learnt in the past two years on this course, and she wanted to give a chance to the actors who hadn't necessarily been able to show off these skills too. Izzy was so dedicated to creating this film and was extremely disappointed in not being able to make it, but she was able to partly achieve what she wanted on a smaller scale by helping to create a short film based on the premise of a piece made by two fellow actors in the previous year, which she wrote the script for. This wasn't what she set out to do but the project was a success and after all this, she still managed to earn a Distinction in her results! Izzy is now currently studying on the Level 4 Acting course at the Miskin and is enjoying expanding her knowledge and learning more about her abilities as an actor, and she hopes this year will be a great way to develop her skills and work on some challenging but exciting projects!