Isabella Waldron

Isabella Waldron

Isabella Waldron is a playwright and actor originally from Portland, Oregon and now based in London. Her work centers around stories of women's relationship to desire and body, intergenerational connection, and home. Her plays have been featured with Frumpish Theatre, Theatre NOVA, Our Digital Stories, The WorkShop Theatre, Our Digital Stories, and Portland Actor's Conservatory. Most recently, she was...
Isabella Waldron is a playwright and actor originally from Portland, Oregon and now based in London. Her work centers around stories of women's relationship to desire and body, intergenerational connection, and home. Her plays have been featured with Frumpish Theatre, Theatre NOVA, Our Digital Stories, The WorkShop Theatre, Our Digital Stories, and Portland Actor's Conservatory. Most recently, she was listed as a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Foundation.

She is a proud alum of the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2020 Cohort, the National Theatre Institute (Fall '18) at the O'Neill, and an associate member of the Dramatists Guild.

Plays

  • Jawbone
    In an old mining town in the Pacific Northwest, 17-year-old Frankie, Sofia and Lilah attempt to navigate growing up amid hauntings and ghost stories. "Jawbone" explores the nexus between ghost stories and sexual assault, asking which stories people choose to believe and which they don't.
  • Things I Never Told The Stars
    A play about family secrets and their destructive, intimate bonding power. Aided by a cosmic cartographer, Stella and her grandfather Bo try to resist falling into a black hole after family matriarch Dot is moved to a dementia facility.
    *Workshopped in NYC and at the Portland Actor's Conservatory (August 2019)
  • Matching
    A short Zoom play. Jess tries to help her mother set up a Match.com when an unwanted call takes them both by surprise.
    SF Chronicle Critics' Pick 2020
  • Gentle Angry Women
    When Winnie and her mother Iris return to Nan's house near Berkshire, the three generations of
    Ellis women must relearn their own relationships to each other and what it really means to
    protect and survive.
  • Reunion
    Two men try to reconnect through an experimental technology to discover what they really meant to each other.