AS DIRECTOR and DRAMATURG
HOW TO BURY IMOGEN
by Yasmin Afifi
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath October 2025
How to Bury Imogen is the darkly comic playwriting debut of BAFTA award winner Yasmin Afifi (Jellyfish and Lobster).
Daisy is a funeral director.
She has everything she's supposed to want. A steady career. A loving partner. A comfortable home. She's even trying for a baby. From the outside her life looks perfect.
Everything is great. Fine. Really.
Until Imogen dies.
Workshop and Public Reading at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath
Supported by Arts Council England, Theatre Royal Bath and Southwark Playhouse
Performed by Tilda Fassih, Jenny Galloway, Will Kerr, Joanna Roth, Antonia Salib, Lowri Izzard and Mari Izzard
Designed by Max Allen and Elliot Adcock
Photography by Jake Bush
Produced by Izzy Parriss Productions
AS DIRECTOR
AFTER SEX
by Siofra Dromgoole
Studio 2, Arcola Theatre July and August 2024
A lyrical, charged and sharply observed two-hander, After Sex follows the trajectory of a couple, told almost entirely through post-coital scenes about how the sex we have can change us.
“I’m just worried because I think what I’m being turned on by is the fact that you’re imagining a stable future with me, whereas what you’re being turned on by is the potential potency of your own sperm.”
Studio 2, Arcola Theatre - July and August 2024
Supported by Arts Council England
Performed by Azan Ahmed and Antonia Salib
Music and Sound Design by Helen Noir
Lighting Design by Simeon Miller
Movement Direction by Stephanie Burrell, Nadine Elise Muncey and Rachel Laird
Intimacy Direction by Stella Moss
Set Construction by Pip Terry
Photography by Jake Bush
Produced by Izzy Parriss Productions and Three Sisters Productions
★★★★★
“The way that actual sex is portrayed is a work of genius.”
Pink Prince Theatre
★★★★★
“An innovative, hilarious and heart wrenching production.”
Green Room Reviews
★★★★★
“Both funny and devastating, this play will make you laugh and cry.”
Pink Prince Theatre
★★★★
“It breaks open the insecurities of an entire generation and examines them, unfiltered and without shame.”
Broadway World
★★★★
“It’s not ‘just sex’ it’s an insight into human connection in its purest, most intimate form.”
Rated Reviews
★★★★
“Touches you in all the right places.”
A Young(ish) Perspective
“[the production] breaks stereotypes for Asian actors.”
Eastern Eye
“rare is such a view so simply crafted but so breath-snatchingly staggering.”
Hackney Citizen
AS DIRECTOR and EVENT CURATOR
SCRATCH
by various writers
Old Red Lion Theatre January 2023 / Lion and Unicorn Theatre July 2023
Featuring 12 short plays performed by a company of 28 actors, each directed by Izzy Parriss. Numerous pieces went on to be presented as full scale productions, including ‘After Sex’ by Siofra Dromgoole.
Playwrights included Holly Barbour, Alex Blanc, Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson, Philippa Lawford, Amy Lever, Barry McStay, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, Becca Chadder, Annie Keegan, Eddie Holmes-Milner, Siofra Dromgoole and Ros Watt
Old Red Lion Theatre - January 2023
Lion and Unicorn Theatre - July 2023
Performed by Daf Thomas, Elan Butler, Annie Cordoni, Ruby Crepin-Glyne, Francesca Eldred, Esme Coy, Amaia Naima Aguinaga, Elizabeth Green, Esmonde Cole, Marcus Harman, Rachel Barnwell, Charlie Coombes, Flo Guy, Julia Pilkington, Natasha Calland, Jacob Hutchings, Adam Mirsky, Grainne Dromgoole, Emily Cosaitis, Naomi Denny, Warren Graham, Holly Godliman, Jessica Enemoku, Sara Hazemi, Catrin Walker-Booth, Tilly Botsford, Barnaby Tobias, Misha Domadia and Ros Watt
Lighting and Sound Design by Shane Gill
Photography by Jake Bush
Produced by Izzy Parriss Productions
AS DIRECTOR and DRAMATURG
DEAR LITTLE LOZ
by Lauren Nicole Mayes
theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh Fringe August 2022
Dear Little Loz is a poetic exploration of love - love for the scabby boys in Blackpool, dodgy dates with Dave and the desperate need for a daddy-daughter connection.
Love comes at a price but what are we willing to pay for it?
Could Loz be a mixture of all the men she’s ever met and the love she’s lost between them all?
What we attach ourselves to as a child might be the connection we search for our whole lives…
theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2022
Written and Performed by Lauren Nicole Mayes
Lighting Design by Harry Sloggett
Photography by Jada Giwa
Produced by Izzy Parriss Productions
★★★★★
“It is amazing how Lauren-Nicole Mayes and Izzy Parriss Productions have created one of the best shows at Edinburgh Fringe using only two items: a stage block and a digestive biscuit.”
The Student
★★★★★
“To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.”
Broadway Baby
★★★★
“Impressive stamina propels… fast-paced and bittersweet tale.”
Fringe Biscuit
AS DIRECTOR and EVENT CURATOR
Bomb Factory Theatre’s
FESTIVAL OF NEW WRITING
by various writers
Bomb Factory Art Gallery September 2021
A weekend long festival featuring both full length and short plays. Izzy Parriss was one of the curators of the event and directed work by Angel Adeoye and Emily Glaze.
Bomb Factory Art Gallery - September 2021
Supported by Arts Council England, Islington Council and The Bomb Factory Art Foundation
Curated by Izzy Parriss, India Harrison Peppe, Merle Wheldon and Philippa Lawford
Photography by Jake Bush
Produced by Bomb Factory Theatre
AS ASSOCIATE / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Manuel Harlan
HEDDA
adapted by Matthew Dunster from Henrik Ibsen
Associate Director to Matthew Dunster
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath
July - August 2025
Miranda Mazzarella
THE ROVER
by Aphra Behn
Associate Director to Benedict Esdale
Old Red Lion Rep Company
September 2025
THE
WILDERNESS
by Philippa Lawford
Associate Director to Philippa Lawford
Park 200, Park Theatre
October 2024
Gabe Winsor
Jake Bush
COLD WATER
by Philippa Lawford
Associate Director to Philippa Lawford
Park 90, Park Theatre
May - June 2024
Jake Bush
IKARIA
by Philippa Lawford
Associate Director to Philippa Lawford
Park Theatre / Yvonne Arnaud / Theatr Clwyd
September - December 2023
Old Red Lion Theatre
October - November 2022
Jake Bush
EMILE&EMILY
by Philippa Lawford, Mojola Akinyemi, Nurit Chinn
Associate Director to Philippa Lawford
VAULT Festival
February 2023
THE MAN OF MODE
by George Etherege
Assistant Director to Lindsay Posner
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
February - March 2022
ORDINARY WORLD
music of Duran Duran, book by Ruby Thomas
Assistant Director to Edward Hall [WORKSHOP]
Ambassador Theatre Group
January - February 2022
AS STUDENT DIRECTOR
CANDLEWASTERS
Artistic Director of new writing theatre company showcasing new plays.
Bedlam Theatre
November 2019 - March 2020
Izzy Parriss
IOLANTHE
by Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert
Teviot Row House, Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group
March 2019
Erica Belton