About

Izzy (she/her/sie/ihr) was raised by the theater community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she performed in plays, musicals, and operas from early childhood. She compiled her training from stages across the U.S., studying devised theatre, improvisation, and Theatre of the Oppressed with St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre; classical voice with the Minnesota Opera; physical theatre with San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre; and directing and acting with the New York Stage & Film’s Powerhouse Theater Training Company.

Izzy’s undergraduate education at Minerva University broadened her repertoire and her borders, bringing her to seven countries before she eventually landed in Berlin. She was midway through her Master’s degree in cultural studies and politics* when she realized the stage had been chasing her the whole time.

Now Izzy can be found acting, singing, and directing on stages across Berlin in both musicals and classical and contemporary plays. Some of her favorite projects these days are with great thing going, an ensemble she launched in 2025 of Berlin-based artists driven to make collaborative, contemporary theater in English. She is most fascinated by genre-, gender-, and era-bending meta-theatrical work that explores memory, power, grief, and queerness. She is also a passionate theater educator and loves helping children and adults find their voice through drama. When not playing pretend, you can find her obsessing over her window box garden or starting another crochet project on the S-Bahn.

* curious about her MA thesis examining the cultural role of community musical theater in the U.S.? She’d literally be so excited to talk to you about it.