Izzy Salant
DYBBUK BAT MITZVAH Set for Industry Reading at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios (Feb 18, 2026)
Izzy Salant to Perform DO BETTER at The San Diego Fringe (Apr 22, 2025)
THE COMPLAINTS DEPT. Will Premiere at Hollywood Fringe Festival (May 28, 2024)
BIO
Izzy Salant is a Los Angeles based playwright, actor, and magician who relocated from Maryland after he got tired of freezing to death 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 is also an artist in Residence at the Braid in Santa Monica.
Most recently, he served on the artist panel for the Jewish Plays Project and as a city producer for the Los Angeles chapter of the organization.
Selected works: Rite of Passage (Bema Productions, Punctuate4, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Theater), Peace Talks (Bema Productions, Arena Civic Theater), I’m Not A Doctor (The Braid).
Selected acting credits: Frank N Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Mr. Applegate (Damn Yankees), Hamlet (Hamlet).
History and Training: 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 (2022-2024)
News
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 18, 2026
DYBBUK BAT MITZVAH, a new play by Becca Schlossberg, will have an industry reading in NYC. Becca Schlossberg's new play explores themes of Jewish folklore and womanhood with a humorous twist
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 22, 2025
'Do Better,' written and performed by award winning playwright, actor and magician Izzy Salant, directed by Peyton Ashby and produced by SpotCorp Events, is coming to the 13th annual San Diego Fringe Festival. Learn more!
by Stephi Wild - May 28, 2024
Get ready for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience as “The Complaints Dept.” premieres at The Hobgoblin Playhouse during the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2023
'Rite of Passage' a new semi-autobiographical play by 25-year-old Izzy Salant will debut as a professional production at The Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, July 13 through 30.
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 6, 2022
Stories come alive at the crossroads of cultures in the new storytelling theater experience, Sweet Tea & the Southern Jew. As the go-to Jewish story company, The Braid is excited to present authentic true tales about the complex challenges Southern Jews face as they navigate a life filled with both Judaism and Dixie.
by A.A. Cristi - May 4, 2021
He gave Meghan Markle her first kiss, and now everyone wants to know him. She lost some of her hearing when she contracted COVID and worries she won't be able to keep singing lullabies to her four-year-old daughter. He had to tell parents that their sons had just died in Vietnam. She fell in love with a woman at a time when that kind of loving was unacceptable.
by Shari Barrett - Jul 24, 2020
Jewish Womena??s Theatre based at The Braid in Santa Monica has been voted one of the a?oeBest Live Theatres on the Westsidea?? three years in a row by readers of The Argonaut. The group presents American Jewish stories, art, and other programming that highlights Jewish contributions to contemporary life. For Goodnessa?? Sake ends the 13th season of JWTa??s' salon series, now being presented online rather than in homes around the city as in previous seasons. The play was created by The NEXT @ The Braid Emerging Artists Fellowship program, a career-training strategy that annually selects a new cohort of aspiring theater professionals to explore how to create meaningful shows from young-adult perspectives, under the guidance and mentorship of JWTa??s experienced staff.
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 10, 2020
The challenging task of choosing between right and wrong can lead not only to sleepless nights, it can also lead to great theater, as the NEXT generation of Jewish theater professionals discovered when creating For Goodness' Sake, their original, brand-new show for Jewish Women's Theatre (JWT).
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 5, 2020
Jewish Women's Theatre (JWT) is proud to announce that this year's new class of NEXT @ The Braid, a unique fellowship training program for emerging arts leaders, will produce For Goodness' Sake an original show to premier in Los Angeles exploring the good we seek, the good we never expected, and the good gone bad!
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