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