Isobel Milne (Miso Bell)
Narrm / Melbourne
isobelmilne@gmail.com
Published Work
2023
Short Fiction 'Thirsty Trees' Awarded Second Place in the Neilma Sidney Fiction Prize
2022
Short Fiction 'Bye Bye Birdie' Westerly Magzine
2022
Poetry 'Slip' Voiceworks Magazine issue #127
2021
Poetry 'Looking Back With Perfect Vision' Soft Quarterly (USA)
2021
Short Fiction 'And People Howling for Their Dogs' Voiceworks Magazine issue #125
2021
Poetry 'Habits' & 'Gestures' Layabout Magazine.
2020
Poetry 'Title Goes Here' NO NO NO Poetry Magazine, Issue 1.
2019
Interview 'Everyone Needs therapy' Farrago Magazine.
2019
Prose 'Tram Reviews' Fledgeling Magazine.
2017
Comic 'Home' Fledgeling Magazine.
Writing for Stage & Screen
2023
Writer, 'Act Natural' Produced by FruitBox Theatre
2021
Writer / Performer 'How To Be A Postie'
2020
Writer / Performer 'Low Frequency' Season 2
2018
Writer / Performer 'Low Frequency,' Season 1
2018
Writer / Director, 'Hamlet By the Pool' Union House Theatre.
2017
Writer / Director 'An Allegory in One Act' Union House Theatre.
Performance
2023
Writer / Performer 'You're FIRED!' (Fearless, Intelligent, with a Real Eye for Detail, An 8 week course gauranteed to boost your career)' Melbourne Fringe Festival
2023
Writer / Performer / Producer 'Gloves Off: Open Mic' The Belfry Bar, Melbourne
2023
Writer / Performer 'Gloves Off: Jazz Comedy Night' The Belfry Bar, Melbourne
2023
Writer / Performer 'Fear Us (Please)' with Christina Schmidt at Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2023
Writer / Performer 'Make Good' New York City
2022
Writer / Performer 'Official Awards Night' for Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
2022
RAW Comedy, Australias largest national comedy competition. Victorian state finalist
2020
Poetry (recorded installation), Beauchamp Bush Fire Fundraiser, Melbourne Vic
2020
Music 'Mighty Big Miso' The Tote, Melbourne Vic
2019
Music 'Mighty Big Miso' The Retreat, Melbourne Vic
2019
Poetry 'Andy's House Performances' Melbourne Vic
2019
Poetry 'Talk Box' Classic Cinema Elsternwick, Vic
2018/19
Host 'Big Night In Comedy' Classic Cinema, Elsternwick Vic
2018
Actor 'The Real Inspector Hound' On The Fence Theatre, Melbourne Vic
2017
Actor 'An Allegory In One Act' Union House Theatre, Melbourne Vic
Production & Event Management
2023
Producer 'Gloves Off Jazz Night' Belfry Bar, Melbourne
2023
Producer 'Gloves Off Open Mic' Motley Bauhaus, Melbourne
2019
Press and Marketing Coordinator, C Venues, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
2017
Founder and Organiser 'On The Fence Theatre' Melbourne
2018/19
Producer 'Big Night In Comedy' Classic Cinema, Elsternwick Vic
Previous Reviews
2023
Act Natural, World Pride Sydney, KXT Theatre. A “captivating script doubles as an intimate psychological study,” Miso Bell “created a sense of both intimacy and confinement” Jemma Ryan, Playwave. Staged reading produced with Fruitbox Theatre, for which I was a resident playwright.
2022
Official Awards Night, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Loop Theatre. "hillariously nonsensical" https://beat.com.au/review-the-official-awards-night-is-a-delightfully-unconventional-work-of-sketch-comedy/
2018
Hamlet By The Pool, Written by Zoe Stephens for MACCS. https://www.macss.com.au/single-post/2018/05/11/Review-Plastic-Shakespeare
2018
Hamlet By The Pool, Union House Theatre. "Brilliantly enjoyable; A...complex examination of the relevance of Shakespearean performance today, the play’s cerebral moments are balanced perfectly with the moments of hilarity” Written by Caitlyn Wilson for Dialog Theatre https://thedialogtheatre.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/plastic-shakespeare-theres-something-fresher-in-the-state-of-shakespeare/
2018
Hamlet By The Pool, Union House Theatre. "toy(s) with both comic and tragic conventions in a regularly laugh-out-loud funny manner" Written by Lucy Torten for Farrago, http://farragomagazine.com/2018/05/12/review-muscs-plastic-shakespeare/
2018
Hamlet By The Pool, Union House Theatre. “Incredibly meta, ironic, and downright fun.” Zoe Stephens, MACCS.
Education
2023
Second place, Neilma Sidney Short Fiction Prize
2022
Victorian State Finalist, RAW Comedy (Australia's largest national comedy competition)
2022
Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Improvisation level 4 (of 4)
2021
BA (Philosophy), University of Melbourne