Isaac is an award-winning Chicago and Los Angeles-based playwright and screenwriter, originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He proudly identifies as “border Mexican” and as ni’wa — the third gender identity marker of the rarámuri Mexican Indigenous community of which they are a direct descendant. 

Artistically, Isaac is currently under commission with LCT3, Steppenwolf Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, DCPA Theatre Company, and IAMA Theatre Company. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and many others. She is the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, and an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. Isaac is also a Certified Facilitator and Expert in Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process, and will be featured in her upcoming book on adapting her feedback process for our current time. 

Isaac’s television credits include the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, the first writers room for Kings of America on Netflix, and most recently the upcoming Apple TV+ Limited Series The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Julia Roberts. They currently have a television series in development with Stacey Sher and FX. On the feature side, he is currently under development with a full-length feature at Focus Features. She enjoys good bowls of menudo on Sundays (con bolillos not tortillas, porfis) and can slay a game of Millennial Loteria. He is represented by The Gersh Agency, ReDefine Entertainment, and Granderson Des Rochers, LLP.