Isabella Dionne Madrigal (enrolled Cahuilla, Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a writer/director/actor and Harvard alum. She is a 2026 Sundance Institute Graton Fellow, 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. Isabella has been the recipient of the Center for Native American Youth’s Champion for Change Award, the Native American Media Alliance Features Lab, and the First Peoples Fund’s Native Performing Arts Fellowship. Her work often centers on ancestral wisdom, healing, and Indigenous futurisms.

