Here’s a little more about moi…

(And by moi I mean strictly work-related achievements)

Isra is an Iraqi-Swedish actor and writer based out of New York. She’s also currently teaching acting at Second City in New York.

Most recently Isra finished filming in Barcelona as the lead in a new commercial directed by Craig Gilespie(I, Tonya, Cruella, Dumb Money) & as the lead in the short film From Where To Where by Lebanese-British filmmaker Carine Koleilat.

She has performed in critically acclaimed hits such as Heather Raffo’s Noura at the Old Globe, directed by Johanna McKeon, and the political thriller The Invaders (BFI London Film Festival), for which she received a Best Lead Actress nomination at SSIFF.

She was awarded Second City’s Writing Scholarship and recently graduated from the writer’s program. She was also selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talents and the Playwrights Realm International Theatremaker Award for her work as an actor and activist.

Last year she completed a 7-month run as the leading role in Hemma Hos at Angereds Teater in Sweden but is back in New York for the long haul!

Her credits include the feature film Arresting God (Sundance Institute Development Track) by Sati Kaur and starring opposite Agam Darshi, Another Girl (Amazon Prime) ; Red Balloon directed by Jessica Blank at Noor Theatre, 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2017 produced by Mark Armstrong; Parisian Blue Fantasie produced by Tony winner Mercedes Ellington at the Friars Club and Anne Frank in the Gaza Strip, directed by Shaun Peknic for which she won PCTF Outstanding Supporting Actress award.

This is in addition to her voice-over work on the Emmy award-winning animation series, Super Wings. Isra is also a writer for Backstage.

Isra is a Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute graduate and has studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. Upon her graduation, Isra began working at the Actors Studio.

Isra was nominated for and subsequently attended LAByrinth theatre company’s 2019 Summer intensive ensemble, studying with Stephen Adly Guirgis, Raul Castillo, and Maggie Flannigan, among others.

Isra has since collaborated professionally with LAByrinth theatre company’s Barn series and Installation America at Cherry Lane theatre.