Isobel McArthur

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Isobel is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. Her 5-star sensation Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) played to acclaim in London’s West End and is currently touring the UK and playing internationally in many territories – including during the Vienna’s English Theatre’s 2024 summer season.

As an actor and musician Isobel has performed in most of the UK’s major theatres, playing leads in Scottish premieres of works by Ella Hickson, Mike Bartlett and Anthony Neilson, as well as in her own plays How to Sing It, Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound and the lauded Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of).

As playwright-director, other recent productions include her touring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland), her original Fringe First Winner The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre) and her adaptation of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company).

In addition to the Olivier Award for Best Comedy Play, Isobel has also won the Evening Standard Award for Best Emerging Talent, The Scotsman’s Fringe First Award, The List ‘Hot 100’ Award, The Saltire Society’s 40 Under 40 alongside nominations for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Stage’s ‘Best West End Debut’, and both Whatsonstage’s ‘Best Supporting Actor’ and ‘Best New Play’.