Isaac "Izzy" Salant is a native Marylander who traveled up the east coast and froze to death to study theater and journalism at UMass Amherst. He then realized he prefered the warmth and relocated to Los Angeles.
His plays all include someone with autism, a member of the Jewish community, or a ghost, sometimes all three!
Plays
A tragic secret haunts Harold while he is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. Why did his mother suddenly die and what are others not telling him? His father, David, finds himself in the throws of moral battle over whether or not to reveal the truth to his autistic son. Written with a mixture of love and humor, ‘Rite of Passage’ is a story of a young man and his father coping with loss as they rebuild their family and hope for the future.
Pat has recently gone through a breakup and is now on a road trip with his friend, Andrew, to retrieve a package and to clear his mind. Pat hasn’t been doing so well and throughout the trip, he keeps dissociating thinking about his girlfriend, Amy, much to Andrew’s dismay.