From an early age Ishmael held a strong interest in movement, participating in many traditional sports, eventually dipping into dance and urban sports before discovering parkour in 2007. Towards the end of his school years Ishmael got into the arts through theatre and gravitated towards physical theatre utilising his experience in parkour as a basis for his movement.
He has since gone on to work on stage and screen for companies such as Frantic Assembly and Marvel, with his most recent work performing in ‘The Other Side’ for Ascension Dance.