Award-winning playwright, poet, novelist. Strong women characters are her trademark.

"Coco & Gigi" an existential Becket-style parlay for four characters, won the Critic's Forum Award for Best New Play and Best Ensemble. It is an exploration of race, gender, and youth and aging. "Lydie Marland in the Afterlife" is a historical fantasy for two women, critically acclaimed and often produced in Ponca City, where Lydie's rags to riches to rags tale played out in real time. "The Early Education of Conrad Eppler," won a Echo Theatre's National Big Shout Out competition; a video short can be viewed on YouTube. "Leonard's Car" is the story of self-obsessed artist and her adult two daughters who compete with art, booze, and a dead lover for their mother's attention.

YouthPlays has published two of Russell-Ides adaptations: "Little Women" and "The Secret Garden."

Her country-western musical, written in collaboration with her husband, Rod Russell-Ides, was produced in Austin Texas to wide acclaim.

Isabella Russell-Ides is also a published poet: "Getting Dangerously Close to Myself." She recently published her debut novel: "White Monkey Chronicles." View Book Trailer on YouTube.

She has also written a pile-up of short plays, many of them prize-winners at various Festivals.