Isabella Madrigal
Isabella Dionne Madrigal (Cahuilla/Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a writer/director/actor and Harvard alum. She is a 2025 Sundance Native Lab Fellow, the Co-Director of the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit, a winner of the Yale Young Native Playwrights Contest, and a 2025 Native Theatre Project Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Awareness Awardee. As an actor, she is best known for her roles in Menil and Her Heart and Echo (Marvel). Isabella has been the recipient of the Center for Native American Youth’s Champion for Change Award, the California Arts Council Impact Grant, the Native American Media Alliance Features Lab, and the First Peoples Fund’s Native Performing Arts Fellowship. Her work often centers ancestral wisdom, healing, and Indigenous futurisms.
