Isabella Waldron

Isabella Waldron is a playwright from Portland, Oregon, now working between NYC and London. She writes plays rooted in interpersonal naturalism and fantastical theatricality. Her work is queer-driven, intergenerational, and funny.

Her plays have been featured with HERE Arts Centre, Southwark Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse,Camden Peoples' Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Orleans Gallery, Pleasance Theatre, Assembly (Ed Fringe), 24 Hour Plays Nationals, 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, the O'Neill Playwriting Conference, and the Papatango Prize. She was shortlisted for the 2024 George Devine Award.

Isabella is...

Isabella Waldron is a playwright from Portland, Oregon, now working between NYC and London. She writes plays rooted in interpersonal naturalism and fantastical theatricality. Her work is queer-driven, intergenerational, and funny.

Her plays have been featured with HERE Arts Centre, Southwark Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse,Camden Peoples' Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Orleans Gallery, Pleasance Theatre, Assembly (Ed Fringe), 24 Hour Plays Nationals, 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, the O'Neill Playwriting Conference, and the Papatango Prize. She was shortlisted for the 2024 George Devine Award.

Isabella is currently a part of the Hampstead Theatre's INSPIRE Programme, led by Simon Stephens.

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

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Scripts

how to build a wax figure

by Isabella Waldron

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

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.

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 Size
4—5
Genre
drama

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...

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.

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Jawbone

by Isabella Waldron

2
Cast Size
6—7
Genre
comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
mystery/thriller

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.

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

1
Cast Size
4—5
Genre
drama

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)

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

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama

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

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 Size
3
Genre
drama

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.

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

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Two men try to reconnect through an experimental technology to discover what they really meant to each other.

Two men try to reconnect through an experimental technology to discover what they really meant to each other.