ISABELLE CHIRLS

Isabelle collaborates on projects in all phases of development and champions new plays from page to stage, with a particular interest in amplifying queer stories, writers, and forms.

Selected producing credits include The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (Classic Stage Company), POLARIS: a tragedy expansion pack (59E59), WRITE CLUB Playfest (Target Margin), and are you listening? (The Makers’ Space). Isabelle is also the Creative Producer for WRITE CLUB, a collective that supports early-career writers in new work development, as well as a script reader for Playwrights’ Center and SheNYC Arts.

Selected associate directing credits include Practical Magic (dir. Maria Friedman, Broadway development), Slanted Floors (dir. Ryan Dobrin, a Greenpoint apartment), you don’t have to do anything (dir. Ryan Dobrin, HERE Arts), and Twilight Village (dir. Nick Auer, Sleepy Hollo).

Isabelle graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Theatre and English with a concentration in Creative Writing. They were awarded the Outreach & Community Service Prize in Theatre and earned High Honors for their thesis “Make the Roof Cave In: Writing Queer Experience on the Page and the Stage.” They have also trained with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (IDC).

In their free time, Isabelle loves painting tiny objects, listening to a cappella covers on loop, and visiting their family’s Seeing Eye puppy.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR | Slanted Floors by Billy McEntee, dir. Ryan Dobrin. Astor Place Theatre, October 20 - November 15.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR | Twilight Village and The Headless Horseman Files by Sam Myers, dir. Nick Auer, prod. Historic Hudson Valley. Sleepy Hollow, NY, October 2 - October 31.

PRODUCER | The Omnivores Lifeboat New Play Festival. September 24 - November 17.