Izzy Salant

Izzy Salant

Izzy Salant is a Los Angeles based playwright, actor, and magician, who left the east coast for Los Angeles after 21 years of freezing and being allergic to going outside. He is a proud member of the Alliance of Jewish Theater, the Playwrights Center, and the Dramatists Guild. He currently serves on the Alliance of Jewish Theater Outreach Committee, as a theater education apprentice for The Braid, and on the...
Izzy Salant is a Los Angeles based playwright, actor, and magician, who left the east coast for Los Angeles after 21 years of freezing and being allergic to going outside. He is a proud member of the Alliance of Jewish Theater, the Playwrights Center, and the Dramatists Guild. He currently serves on the Alliance of Jewish Theater Outreach Committee, as a theater education apprentice for The Braid, and on the artist panel for the Jewish Plays Project.

Selected works: Rite of Passage (Punctuate4, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Theater), Peace Talks (Bema Productions, Arena Civic Theater), Maryland is the F#CKING South (The Braid). Selected acting credits: Frank N Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Mr. Applegate (Damn Yankees), Hamlet (Hamlet). History: Theater, B.A. (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Journalism, B.A. (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (Class of 2019, 2021), NEXT at the Braid Fellow (2019, 2021), AJT Theatermacher (2022-present).

He is also a practicing magician.

Plays

  • Rite of Passage by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Jewish, autism + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Jewish, autism, suicide, grief, family grief, ghosts
    WORLD PREMIERE JULY 2023

    FULL LENGTH: A tragic secret haunts Harold while he is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. Why did his mother suddenly die and what are others not telling him? His father, David, finds himself in the throws of moral battle over whether or not to reveal the truth to his autistic son. Written with a mixture of love and humor, ‘Rite of Passage’ is a story of a young man and his...
    WORLD PREMIERE JULY 2023

    FULL LENGTH: A tragic secret haunts Harold while he is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. Why did his mother suddenly die and what are others not telling him? His father, David, finds himself in the throws of moral battle over whether or not to reveal the truth to his autistic son. Written with a mixture of love and humor, ‘Rite of Passage’ is a story of a young man and his father coping with loss as they rebuild their family and hope for the future.
  • Peace Talks by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Israel, Palestine + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: Israel, Palestine, Israel-Palestine, Jewish, war, revenge, death, terrorism
    Co-written by Ryan Michael Dunn

    *MOST PROTESTED SHOW at the Victoria Fringe Festival*

    FULL LENGTH: After Andrew’s death, his bereaved brother James sets out on a revenge plot against Israel and
    Noam, the man he believes is responsible for Andrew’s death. Noam, believing himself to also
    be responsible, sets out on revenge against himself.
  • The Scenic View by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: incest, movement + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: incest, movement, physical, after death, breaking the fourth wall
    FULL LENGTH: Mike will tell you
  • Used Time by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: time travel, love + 2 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: time travel, love, hurricane, regret
    10 MINUTE: A time traveler speaks on the phone with his love, who's in a hurricane, realizing he cannot save her.
  • Maryland is the F#CKING South by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1–2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Maryland, Southern Hospitality + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Maryland, Southern Hospitality, suicide, death, community, judaism, Jewish
    MONOLOGUE: A thought provoking case on why Maryland is in fact located in the South, thanks to some good ole Southern Hospitality.
  • Why the Hell is it so Hard to Write a Recommendation on NPX? A Monologue by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 18
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof + 1 more
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    Keyword: letters, npx + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: letters, npx, absurd, playwriting
    MONOLOGUE: Someone fed up with being stuck on writing recommendations on NPX writes a letter
  • The Sodom and Gomorrah Play by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Holocaust, Gay and LGBTQ + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, satire
    Keyword: Holocaust, Gay and LGBTQ, Jewish
    ONE ACT: What if we took the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and instead of them being places of sin, they were places that a higher power considered sinful, but the people in it weren't. This play re-imagines the story in Nazi Germany in Camp Sodom; with Lot being a Jew in the camp, Abraham being an escaped Jew posing as a Nazi, and the three visitors being three gay men. PLEASE read playwright's note in the script.
  • P. Lay by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 2 more
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    Keyword: Libel, courtroom + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: Libel, courtroom, Pigs
    10 MINUTE: Peter Nisman is unhappy with Franklin Ewe's coverage of him in the local paper.
  • Unrequited by Izzy Salant
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: love, cheating + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: love, cheating, new england, unrequited love, Non-Binary
    FULL LENGTH: Jake and Alice are in love. Were in love. Now they’re in love again. As is Jackie. And Michael. Follow these four through a whirlwind of the rekindling of a bursting romance full to the brim with everything you’d imagine in a real-life soap opera.
  • 2082 by Izzy Salant
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: road trip, breakup + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: road trip, breakup, Depression, anxiety, mental illness, bad breakups
    ONE ACT: Pat's not doing so hot. He went through a devastating break up with Amy... seven months ago, so to cheer him up, his best friend Andrew takes him on a road trip. While on the road, Pat begins to have flashbacks to his relationship as his guilt eats away more and more. Will the duo make it to their destination?