Issie swickle biography

By Bill Hirschman

Issie Swickle.

Remember that name. Not that you’d have trouble doing so. But remember when you first heard it, for bragging rights. Because you may be hearing it for a long time.

Issie is just a nine-year-old Davie girl with a taste for gymnastics who was once recognizable for long brunette hair and who until now attended Fox Trail Elementary School.

But charisma, a clarion voice, intense training and determination have won her the title role in the year-long national tour of Annie that will kick off Sept.

Issie swickle biography

26 and come to the Broward Center Oct. 7.

“I love to do this,” she gushed during a telephone interview Thursday on her lunch break from rehearsals in New York City. “It’s like a kind of choice of staying home and having fun or so living my dream.

Some people don’t have this chance. I’m very fortunate.”

Anyone doubting for a second