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Theatre

Isaiah has performed with many theater companies and organizations, both in New York City and outside of it, including:

Flux Theater Ensemble
Gideon Productions
EBE Ensemble
Theatre-Studio, Inc.
The NY Fringe Festival
The Queens Players
NY Renaissance Faire
Vassar Powerhouse Theater
Forestburgh Regional Playhouse
Catskills’ IDEA
Amherst College

He has played a wide variety of comic supporting roles such as Foster in Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as youthful dramatic leads such as Alan Strang in Equus and Bill in Runaways.

Isaiah is particularly skilled with heightened language, having performed in classical plays written by Shakespeare, Calderon de la Barca, Ibsen, and the commedia play Androcles and the Lion, but is equally comfortable with modern dialogue.

Isaiah is a Creative Partner in Flux Theatre Ensemble, where he also serves as Marketing Director. He has had no fewer than seven characters written especially for him by August Schulenburg, Flux's Artistic Director. Flux has won a number of prestigious awards, including:

Caffe Cino Fellowship (NY Innovative Theatre Awards) "for producing consistently outstanding work"
Citation for Excellence (Independent Theatre Bloggers Association)
People of the Year (nytheatre.com)
Best Indie Theatre Company Whose Work You Should Get Your Ass To (NY Press)

...and has earned a host of stellar reviews from the New York Times, TimeOutNY, and myriad other sources. Some of these are linked on the reviews page.

Film

Zelimo (Gold Special Jury Award, Houston Int. Film Festival; Best Production, Made-In-Miami Film Festival)
Poultrygeist (Troma Entertainment)
Shooting Vegetarians (opposite Reiko Aylesworth and Elodie Bouchez)
Window Shopping (broadcast on PBS:13's Saturday Shorts)
A Camp Story
Cell
Exposure

...and a stable of student films at NYU, Columbia, NYHunter College, and Amherst College.

Special Skills

Ask me about my extensive teaching and children's theater background!

Singing (Tenor)
Stage Combat
Karate (Orange Belt)
Fire Eating
Comedic Improvisation
Piano, Trombone, Recorder
Mover: African, Modern, Basic Tap
Musician’s Ear for Accents, Dialects
Speak French, Read Hebrew
NY State Driver’s License

Training and Education

B.A cum laude, Amherst College (double-majored in Theater/Dance and Music)
Wrote, composed, and directed full-length original musical for Senior Thesis

Awards

Robert G. Wood Fellowship for the Arts
Florence Leshner Memorial Scholarship for the Performing Arts