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Issy Knowles 

Issy Knowles is a Meisner trained actress, National Youth Theatre Member, emerging playwright and up and coming screenwriter. 

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Her first play 'Model Behaviour' debuted at Edinburgh's 2018 Fringe Festival where it received glowing 4* reviews across the board and later sold out its London preview at The Arcola Theatre. Model Behaviour was included in the Pleasance Theatre’s 2019 Spring Season in London, ‘You Will Know Their Names’, where it heralded 5/4* reviews and left audiences ‘absolutely furious’ over the treatment of models within the industry.

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Issy Knowles is represented by Tavistock Wood and Curtis Brown. 

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'Writer to Watch Out for' in Deadline

Home Base:

London

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Focus:

Acting + Writing    

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Life Motto:

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” 

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Inspiration:

Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Denise Gough, Ben Mendelsohn… The list goes on!  

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