Isabel Adomakoh Young – Performer

Isabel is an actor and writer. After studying English at Cambridge, she trained with NYT Rep, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 2019 Swan Season. Her co-creations include the binary-bending Pecs Drag Kings company, award-winning Brainchild Festival and the ‘Lionboy’ book trilogy, published in 36 languages and adapted by Complicité. Had 2020 gone to plan, she’d have toured in musical Milky Peaks and played lead in a London Shakespeare production. 

Theatre includes: Venice Preserved and The Provoked Wife (RSC Swan Theatre); Meatballs (Hampstead Theatre); Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth (Garrick); Victoria’s Knickers, Consensual, Pecs Drag Kings: The 80s Show (Soho Theatre); Bite Your Tongue (Hackney Showroom); The Peasant’s Soul (reading- Shakespeare’s Globe); Brood (Arcola)