Issy Flower

Issy, she/they. Primarily writer and actor, but also director and dramaturge on the side. Interested in devising, queer stories, and looking back to the past with a critical eye, but also up for anything and expanding my practice.

Credits

Acting:

2018 Millicent Fawcett On The March Oxford Playhouse Young Company Jo Noble
2018 Mute Girl The Pillowman St Cuthbert’s Society Drama Society Rachel Tan
2018 Corinthian Woman Lysistrata Durham University Classical Theatre Sophie Boddington
2018 Mrs Malaprop The Rivals Ooook! Productions Emily Winters
2019 Mr Aisling That’s The Way The Kabuki Crumbles Durham Drama Festival Charlie Nicholson
2019 Mrs Allen Northanger Abbey Castle Theatre Company Imogen Usherwood
2019 Gertrude Hamlet Durham University Classical Theatre Gemma Macmillan-Fox

2019 Various Roles Birdland St Cuthbert’s Society Drama Society Charlotte Hartley
2019 Rosie In The Wings Durham Student Theatre Wellbeing Campaign Imogen Usherwood
2019 Lead Chorus Member Miss Julie Elysium Theatre Company Jake Murray
2018/19 Various Roles Buttered Toast Showcase Buttered Toast Jacob Freda/Mia Chitty
2019 Various Roles Things We Aren’t Supposed To Talk About Pitch Productions Jenny Shpeter
2019 The Host The Merry Housewives of Windsor Six Side Theatre Company Hal Lockwood
2019 Hera
The Last Days of Troy Durham University Classical Theatre Tom Jacobs
2019 Gertrude Hamlet DUCT (at Fringe) Gemma Macmillan-Fox
2019 Sophie Scarlett (Film) Durham University Film and Television Society Ed Whelan
2019 Lover Symphony Fantastique Durham Philharmonic Orchestra Anna Bailey
2019 Corrine Saunders Murder Mystery Formal St Cuthbert’s Drama Society Serena Smart
2019 Louise de Kéroualle Nell Gwynn Durham University Classical Theatre Gabbie Sills
2020 Provost Measure for Measure Castle Theatre Company Helena Baker
2020 Wall Midsummer Night’s Dream Jazz Hands Productions Felix Westcott
2020 Sarah Shepard The Fictional Five Green Door Theatre Sean Gallagher Gill
2020 Voice #Oxlove Dream Spire Studio Callum John
2020 Sarah Under the Influence (Film) Virtual Collaborators Festival Antonia Georgieva
2020 Sarah Andrews Cancellations Purple on Toast Podcast Jeff Dunne
2020 Stage Directions The Interview The New Works Playhouse Issy Flower
2020 Halgerda/Various Chars They Met on Good Friday DUCT Eleanor Thornton
2020 Laurie Cake The New Works Playhouse Abbie Grundy
2020 Various Characters Lettuces for Tortoises Arts @ The Old Firestation Issy Flower
2021 Doris Partington My Mother Said I Never Should Castle Theatre Company Caitlin Baratt
2021 Various Characters Doctor Who DUADS x DWS Jacob Cook
2021 Daughter/ Various Characters Frankenstein Castle Theatre Company HMF Jenkins
2021 Detective Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm Durham Drama Festival Frankie H-W
2021 Various Characters* Absolution DUCT Alice Butler
2021 Troupe Member Mountains Wrong Tree Troupe Sephie Hotchkies/Fergus Carver
2021 Cast Member Barmy Nonsense OMF Theatre Greg Winders
2021 Sal Years of Sky New Works Playhouse Louise Kent
2021 Background Voices Commuters BBC/Screen South Issy Flower
2021 Jokannan Salome Purple Radio Esalan Gates
2022 Number Three Winkers Act II Drama Festival Cat Harvieu
2022 Troupe Member Goldsmiths Improv Troupe Goldsmiths University N/A

Awarded 'Best Supporting Actor (Radio)' at Durham Student Theatre Awards 2021

Writing:

- IMPLOSION- Durham Drama Festival 2020, awarded ‘Best Writer’
- I AM THE MOST COLD-HEARTED SON OF A BITCH YOU WILL EVER MEET- JustOut Theatre and Pitch Productions (scratch), 2020 and 2019
- OXFORD CATALYST 2020- Shortlisted
- PAINKILLER PRODUCTIONS BITTER PILL MONOLOGUES- Shortlisted
- BUTTERED TOAST SHOWCASE- Various Sketches, Buttered Toast Productions (2018-20)
- OUTSTAGEUS 2020 @ HIVE NORTH- Shortlisted
- HOME- NSDF/Paines Plough Scratch, 2020
- THE INTERVIEW- Table Read, The New Works Playhouse and Production, Buttered Toast Theatre Company, 2021
- NATIONAL THEATRE YOUNG WRITERS COURSE- Participant
- LOVESTRUCK- Pitch Productions and Visible Delight Theatre Company, 2021, Executive Producer and Script Editor
- ILLUSION- Loud Voices Silent Streets, 2021
FILM WRITING:
- UEA INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING COURSE- Participant
- MORNING ROUTINE- Sedos, 2020
- TOWER- RapidReel, 2020
- KICKITDOWN PRODUCTIONS SCREEN TO SCREEN- Longlist, 2020
- PRETTY MISS- Theatre Alive, 2020
- UNDER THE INFLUENCE- Virtual Collaborators Festival, 2020
- SLACKLINE PRODUCTIONS- Monologue shortlisted, 2020
RADIO WRITING:
- THE WRITE HOUR PODCAST- Shortlisted, 2018
- OMF THEATRE- Sketches produced, 2020
- ARTS AT THE OLD FIRE STATION OPEN CALL- Comissioned to write radio drama, 2020
- PURPLE ON TOAST PODCAST- Monologues produced, 2020-21
- THE MARLEY STONES- Castle Theatre Company, 2020
- YOU ME AND QUARANTINE- Sketches Produced, 2020
- COMMUTERS- BBC New Creatives Comission, BBC Sounds, 2021

Training

MA Goldsmiths Writing for Theatre and Dramaturgy, 2021-22
UEA Introduction to Screenwriting, 2020
National Theatre Introduction to Playwriting, 2021
Young Vic Introduction to Directing, 2021
NSDF 'Noises Off' Critical Writers Programme, 2020-21
Durham Student Theatre Workshops Secretary 2019-21