Isabella Madrigal

Biography

Isabella Madrigal is an enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and is of Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. In 2020, Isabella graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts Acting Conservatory. She is also a recent graduate of Harvard College where she majored in English and won the prestigious Harvard Hoopes Thesis Prize for her screenplay, Menil and Her Heart. Isabella and her sister Sophia are the Co-Directors of the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit, which produces and creates films, theater performances, and arts workshops dedicated to uplifting Indigenous voices. Isabella’s play Menil and Her Heart was a winner of the Yale Young Native Storytellers Contest in...