Isabella "Izzy" Church is a recognized self-empowered actor, author, and artist dedicated to creating everything from bold comedies to daring psychological thrillers. She is the founder of Third Culture Productions, a certified creative arts coach, and a body & brain, instructor. As a creative arts coach, Izzy implements meditative & brain enhancement techniques that teach optimal brain/body utilization for artists and personal development.
Izzy completed Maggie Flanigan's Meisner Program, Shakespeare from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with Shane-Ann Younts, Improv with Upright Citizen Brigade, and IN Studios. Izzy began her studies in film production at the School of Visual Arts and graduated from Mary Mount Manhattan College with a degree in Communication Arts, specializing in writing for film and television. Furthermore, Izzy had a short but pathbreaking stint with Dream Works in the books to film department. Her time at Dream Works inspired her to adapt her novel, Angry Movie Guy, for the screen.
Izzy's multi-faceted career has helped her build a personal brand and meet and forge relationships within film, fashion, art, music, and publishing. As an artist, Izzy's work has been displayed at several galleries, including the NYU Kimmel Center, HOWL Happening, Afro-Punk, World Trade Center, Richard Taittinger Gallery, and the World Trade Gallery.
Izzy's most recent short film work, a Lynch-inspired psychological thriller titled Brick House, and a neo-noir sketch comedy short film titled Hearts & Daggers were both selected for the LES festival with the Theater for the New City.
During COVID, Izzy wrapped on the comedy feature film titled Mister Sister and the mob-comedy Families Feud. Izzy can't wait to get back on stage and is working on an original immersive scripted/unscripted absurdist mob comedy called the Maurine & Maurice Show.
On the horizon is the release of another children's book titled Little Red & Vandal Wolf: You're in My Hood Now. Izzy also anticipates the production of her first feature film, the LOL romantic comedy Letters To Ganesha, and her debut pilot script, a gothic-dramedy TV pilot, Bank.
Bank Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Comedy Haunted by his deceased writing professor, Victor Singer moves to LA to write the next Hollywood Blockbuster but ends up penniless and living in his car on Hollywood Boulevard. With no one left to turn to for help, Vic forces himself to cast his dreams aside and take a night manager position at a failing gothic nightclub called the BANK, where he discovers his doppelganger is draining the City of Angels.