Hi! I’m Isa!

Isa is a multi-hypohynate theatre artist, creative, and word nerd based in Portland, OR, and New York City. As a child, Isa was certain she was going to be a surgeon until she realized that she had no real passion for the medical sciences and was merely infatuated with the big words surgeons get to use. It was not until finding a copy of Shakespeare’s Henry IV as an adolescent that she realized there were far less gory ways to dedicate her life to language.

As a performer, writer, and dramaturg, Isa’s work is guided by her fascination with language, namely, how such a man-made tool can define civilizations, make or disrupt peace, and create beauty. She is enraptured by the theatre’s singular ability to encapsulate the fleeting quality of language, how it exists, defines us, and yet cannot be captured.

Currently, Isa is revising her solo show, Every Sound I’ve Ever Made, an intimate portrait of one woman’s journey to reconcile a familial legacy of silence and resistance, which interrogates the distance women’s voices fill when memory and identity divulge.