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 queerness, and themes of desire and body, intergenerational connection, and home. Her plays have been featured with Camden Peoples' Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Orleans Gallery, Pleasance Theatre, Assembly (Ed Fringe), Frumpish Theatre, Theatre NOVA, Our Digital Stories, The...
Isabella Waldron is a playwright and actor originally from Portland, Oregon and now based in London. Her work centers around stories of queerness, and themes of desire and body, intergenerational connection, and home. Her plays have been featured with Camden Peoples' Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Orleans Gallery, Pleasance Theatre, Assembly (Ed Fringe), Frumpish Theatre, Theatre NOVA, Our Digital Stories, The WorkShop Theatre, Our Digital Stories, and Portland Actor's Conservatory. She has been listed as a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Foundation and the O'Neill Playwriting Conference.

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. She is also a proud volunteer with Scene and Heard (UK).

Plays

  • Jawbone by Isabella Waldron
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: young women, sexual assault + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: young women, sexual assault, ghost story, Pacific Northwest
    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 by Isabella Waldron
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Family Secrets, universe + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Family Secrets, universe, science, astronomy, grandfather, dementia
    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 by Isabella Waldron
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: mother-daughter, dating + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: mother-daughter, dating, zoom
    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 by Isabella Waldron
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: intergenerational, women + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: intergenerational, women, protest, England
    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 by Isabella Waldron
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: future, love story + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: future, love story, queer, life after death
    Two men try to reconnect through an experimental technology to discover what they really meant to each other.
  • how to build a wax figure by Isabella Waldron
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: queer, age gap relationship + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: queer, age gap relationship, wax figure, anatomy, science, artist, LGBTQIA+
    Bea's much older neighbour, Margot, was her first love, her first joint, her first prosthetic eye. When Bea is invited to speak about her expertise as an ocularist, she finds herself unable to untie Margot from all that she does. As she tries to unpack her mentor's effect on her work, Bea must dissect for herself what love really looks like.

  • Chatter by Isabella Waldron
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: ai, chatgpt + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: ai, chatgpt, queer, Coercive control, LGBTQIA+, technology
    On a dark and stormy night, Sweet Thing returns home to discover her girlfriend, Darlin, has left her. Sweet Thing turns to her AI-generative companion, Chatter, to rewrite their love story and uncover her mistakes. As the Chatter-written scenes unfold, darker truths about Sweet Thing's relationships emerge. 'Chatter' explores the blurred lines between reality and technology, control and abuse,...
    On a dark and stormy night, Sweet Thing returns home to discover her girlfriend, Darlin, has left her. Sweet Thing turns to her AI-generative companion, Chatter, to rewrite their love story and uncover her mistakes. As the Chatter-written scenes unfold, darker truths about Sweet Thing's relationships emerge. 'Chatter' explores the blurred lines between reality and technology, control and abuse, and asks how we show up for each other in an isolated world.