Izabel Mar

FAMILY PRESS

Family

by Celine Song

dir. Alex Duffy

Hoi Polloi

"Mar renders Alice’s emotional lability, her switch from the imperious to the plaintive, with fascinating intensity. "

"...it’s hard not to admire the actors’ commitment as they set ablaze almost every piety about the nuclear family... This play wants to offend, to disturb, to create an ash heap out of your expectations.."

- New York Times

"Presence—having it, making it felt—is the crucial ineffability of live performance...A strong argument for this strategy is “Family,” a deliberately repulsive haunted-house fever dream written by Celine Song, the writer and director of the film “Past Lives.”"

- Helen Shaw for New Yorker

JOA PRESS

'Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California'

by Chloe Xtina

'The drama-school dropout Emmalee (Izabel Mar) uses the key that comes with being Employee of the Month to sneak into the supermarket at night and leave her pheromones all over the produce. (“Hey Gretchen,” she pants with grinning, demonic energy, “Guess what I did with this kiwi? I rubbed it on my fucking neck!"'

- Sarah Holdren/Vulture Mag

galatea 2.0

by Sophie Dushko

dir. C.C. Kellogg

Brooklyn Art Haus

"... in a magnificently arresting monologue performance by Mar"

- Thinking Theater NYC

"Mar and Santvoord deliver nuanced performances. Mar is not afraid to make a mess on stage, which is a thrill to watch."

- the dionysian dream

'DOVER'

by Matthew Gasda

"...in what appears to be Mar’s (quite arresting) improvisation: The hallucinated Charlotte runs back to Anna at the last minute, takes her hands in her own, smiles, and says, in what is the play’s final line, “Hi, Mama.”"

- Geoffrey Mak for Spike Mag

Mac Beth

Seattle Repertory Theatre

dir. Erica Schmidt

"Izabel Mar as Lady Macbeth was perhaps my favorite, if a favorite is possible from this cast. The 400-year old lines dripped from her lips as if they truly were her very own thoughts."

- Broadway World

"Lady Macbeth, played by local actress Izabel Mar in her Seattle Rep debut, skillfully personifies one of the most formidable female characters in the Shakespearean canon... she takes on Lady Macbeth’s emasculating, shrewd nature and ultimate descent into madness so skillfully that, despite her evil, it is almost disappointing to see such a strong character fall."

- Seattle Mag

MAC BETH PRESS

"Lady Macbeth, Izabel Mar, who gives her play-within-a-play performance as a normally shy girl venting her suppressed adolescent fury through the “Macbeth” game. She growls her most infamous line — about her willingness to nurse a baby, look at it smiling in her face, and smash its brains out — with convincing venom."

- Seattle Times

The accomplished acting of the cast soon dispels any such notion. Each girl is totally committed to every line spoken on the stage. Most remarkable to me were the performances of Izabel Mar as Lady Macbeth, Tamsen Glaser as Banquo and Laakan McHardy as Witch 2... You could light a city from the electricity emanating from the stage in this play. It was as if the classic lines from the script were born and heard anew when presented by this fresh-faced cast."

- Drama In The Hood