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Izabel Mar on Her Babygirl Breakthrough, Female Directors and Asian Representation in Hollywood

If you could give advice to your younger self when you were just starting out, what would it be?

I’m genuinely happy with where I’ve ended up. I sort of think that’s rare in this industry. I definitely get frustrated at times, but I don’t know, I like who I am now and I wouldn’t be her if anything changed. But... in that vein, the advice I would give is:

“You know who you are. Stick with her and you’ll be alright.”

- Interview with Faye Bradley

ANON

Anon

by Anne Washburn

dir. Anne Kauffman

MCC Theater

"Mar’s still-thinking Delia, and also the increasingly pitiable duo of Adam and Will, who hold down the emotional arc of the play.

– Sara Holdren

"Mar successfully musters teenage fury tempered by real love"

– Zachary Stewart

"Mar is riveting as Delia, bringing ferocious teenage energy to the writing and rehearsing of Goneril's imagined soliloquy."

– Kimberly Ramírez

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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."

– Loren Noveck

"...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.."

– Rhoda Feng

"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.”

– Helen Shaw

Family @ La MaMa

by Celine Song

dir. Alex Duffy

Hoi Polloi

"The show’s three performers are giving their all to the intentionally gross and gruesome material. Duffy gets a distinctive dark clown out of each of them, menacing or masochistic as the case may be."

- Sara Holdren

"Alice (Izabel Mar, in a really truly triumphant performance), is a “professional listener” obsessed with media."

– Tess Walsh

'Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California'

by Chloe Xtina

The Tank Core Season

'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!"'

- Sara Holdren

"This experimental show takes place at a Brooklyn bodega. Looking for cutting edge theater? Just run to the corner store"

- Lena Wilson

JOA PRESS

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."

- Kelly Rogers Flynt