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Jamie Wax on Call Me Izzy, the One-Woman Show He Built from a Lifetime of Talking to Strangers

by Mara Reinstein

Some people collect baseball cards and stamps. Playwright Jamie Wax boasts that he collects people. People's stories, that is. "Ever since I was a little boy, odd and interesting people would come up and talk to me about their lives"my mother used to be terrified to take me to a big city because of it," he explains. "So my characters are always based on real people." One particular person always stood out: "My aun…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 1:12pm on June 10, 2025