A little bit about Isobel…
Hailing from Orillia, Ontario, Isobel Grieve grew up making videos on her family’s digital camera. The subjects of her …cinematography and narration were, but not limited to, her toes, Barbies, and …grass. Her creativity and passion for storytelling are what pulled her through difficulties at school growing up with a learning disability.
Isobel’s afterschool elementary drama club forever cemented her heart as a theatre kid. She moved to Guelph after high school to study at the University’s Theatre program. However, through her first few years there, it became apparent to Isobel that her true aspirations lay within TV and Film. She switched her major and graduated with a B.A.H. in English, Media & Cinema Studies.
In a whirlwind of panic and need for escape, Isobel bought a roundtrip VIA train ticket to Vancouver and the back out east to Montreal. It was a wild ride:
- There was a rockslide a few hours out of Vancouver, she rode into the city on a bus like an eighth-grade field trip.
- Heading back east, the 2020 Wetʼsuwetʼen rail blockades protesting the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline were in full swing – so, she took a plane from Winnipeg to Toronto, skipped Ottawa and bussed the rest of the way to Montreal.
- Arrived back in Guelph just in time for the first of many Ontario COVID-19 lockdowns.
Isobel then moved to Toronto (in the middle of a panorama? a panini?) where she studied at Humber College (kind of), graduating with a Postgraduate Certificate in Television Writing and Producing (and Zoom video conferencing).
She currently lives in Toronto with her sister, where she writes freelance for INKspire, and the Toronto Guardian. Isobel also occasionally edits for her sisters Comics Instagram, @geegeecomics. When she’s not busy with journalism, she’s working on her creative portfolio.