ISABELLE CHIRLS

Balancing logistics with creativity, 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, their process prioritizes text, dramaturgy, and care for collaborators and audiences alike.

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), and you don’t have to do anything (dir. Ryan Dobrin, HERE Arts).

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).

PRODUCER | Very Blue Light by Daphne Silbiger, dir. Emily Moler. The Tank, Core Production, September 10 - October 4.

PRODUCER | The Omnivores Reading Festival. Fall 2026.