Isabel Rodriguez is a director and theatre artist from Southern California. Select credits: Five Faces: Oil on Canvas (Fishwife Productions), PERFORMING FILIPINA, DIGGING (The Fire This Time), Bruised. (The Fire This Time), Someone Like Me (Empty Room), GIRL BOSS (24 Hour Plays), LASTHUNTER (Williamstown), Radial Gradient (Lime Arts), The Party Clown (Larking House). 

She has developed work through workshops and productions at New York City Center Encores!, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, Leviathan Lab, and Larking House. She has assisted celebrated Broadway directors (including Tony, Obie, Drama League winners) such as Lear deBessonet, Michael Arden, Danya Taymor, Robert O’Hara, Anne Kauffman, Ralph B. Pena, and Gordon Greenberg in New York and in regional theatres across the country. 

Fellowships: 2024 New York City Center Encores! Directing Fellow, 2022 J Michael Friedman Fellow at Williamstown, 2021 Bill Foeller Directing Fellow at Williamstown, 2020 SDC Directing Fellow at KCACTF, The Kennedy Center's BIPOC Critics Lab, The 24 Hour Plays National cohort and United AAPI Artists. Guest host of Token Theatre Friends, A Critical Ecosystem (Kennedy Center), and INTER-RACED podcast. 

     Isabel finds her stoke by developing work that intersects social chaos with family disorder. Wherever she goes, she hopes her work inches live arts towards being the center of democracy as a public necessity. BA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Stage Directing from Cal State Fullerton. Educational directing workshops include Mourning Becomes Electra, All My Sons, Misalliance, Much Ado About Nothing, Phoebe in Winter, and Poppy. She also serves as a teaching artist for The Old Globe and San Diego Musical Theatre.

         Isabel lives in San Diego with her partner and a corn snake named Cheese. She is a longboard dancer and a lead for DocksessionSD, a global skate community. And one day, she hopes to land her fakie shuv-it.