Litter Bug

Izzy & Vic Vaughan’s feature screenplay ‘THE SILENT RUN’ was a finalist in the 2017 Writers Lab (NYWIFT) and ‘OUT OF NOWHERE’ was a quarterfinalist for the 2017 Screencraft Fellowship. ‘300 YEARS AND COUNTING’ won Best Historical Screenplay at the Monaco International Film Festival and was a finalist at the 2019 Big Apple Film Festival in NYC. 'ZERO LEGACY' was a semifinalists at Atlanta Film Festival and ‘LITTER BUG’ was a sci-fi winner at the International Horror Hotel (2020), a finalist at the Beaufort International Film Festival, and is currently a semifinalist at Shriekfest 2021.

Their debut film, ‘S-HER’, premiered at the Paris Short Film Festival in 2017. Their latest short ‘SECOND CHILDHOOD’ won Best Film (2019) at the Brighton Rocks International Film Festival and screened at in Barcelona, Istanbul and Monaco, where it won Best Cinematography (2020). They have two shorts films currently in Post-production.

IZZY VAUGHAN spent many years as a professional singer and actor performing in Phantom of the Opera and numerous international opera and musical theater productions. She has worked as a voice-over artist for the BBC Radio Workshops, London and for Tonhaus, Toneworx, T-recs and Chroma Film+Tv Produktion, Hamburg, recording children’s books, computer games, trailers, advertisements and corporate films and has written a novel, 'Notes of Endurance'.

For five years, Izzy was the Director of the Music Department at the largest musical theater academy in Germany; the Stage School in Hamburg, where she spearheaded a teaching team of more than thirty professional singers, actors and musicians. She was also responsible for the curricular design and implementation of the vocal anatomy and physiology program.

Izzy studied voice, violin, viola and piano at the Purcell School of Music and was awarded an honours degree in Voice from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

VIC VAUGHAN has stage directed/produced over 70 operas, musicals and world premiere productions. In 2003 she co-founded Real Time Opera, a 501(c)3 non-profit contemporary performing arts company where she directed the acclaimed 2004 production of FEYNMAN at the Knitting Factory in NYC (in collaboration with Sō Percussion and the Yale School of Music) based on the life and works of physicist Richard Feynman. Other directing/producing credits include HAWAIIAN TAN RATFACE at Studio Z in San Francisco, and an experimental opera for sign-language PARADOX at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as several ‘pop-up’ operas.

For a decade she was the Assistant Director of Opera at Oberlin College, for whom she directed the film and video sequences for the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera LOST HIGHWAY at the Miller Theater in NYC. She was also the AD and co-producer of LEAVE ME ALONE!, a jazz opera written by and starring graphic novel author Harvey Pekar, and was development director for A HOUSE IN BALI by Evan Ziporyn which debuted at CAL Performances and went on to perform at the BAM New Wave Festival.

Vic trained as an Opera Director at Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in England. In addition to her collaborative writing with Izzy Vaughan she tutors part-time for Rose Bruford College in London and is writing a book for Routledge Press teaching historical performance style to singer/actors.

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