Isabel Lee Roden
chicago-based actor / writer / musician
Hi! I’m Isabel (they/them).
Proud Filipino-Chinese, Genderqueer Actor and Creative.
Based in Chicago, IL
Represented by Paonessa Talent Agency.
Classically trained with a rebellious streak, you can find me onstage and onscreen chasing the beautiful, terrible, exhilarating ways words can move and change us. I do this because I love language, and because I believe the very best of it belongs to everyone.
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DC Theater Arts:
“Roden’s physical impulsiveness, coupled with the way [they] just burst out with Juliet’s lines, convinces you that [they’ve] never had these thoughts, let alone spoken them, ever before.”
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DC Theater Arts:
“As Speed, […] Isabel Lee Roden has a similar reversal of character; no sooner do we see them as the modest Juliet one night, than we see them as outspoken, and fully capable of making us laugh ourselves silly, here in Two Gents.”
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Buzz Center stage:
“Roden’s vivacity and marvelous comedic bearing were exceptional - this was their debut with PrideArts and they’re definitely a keeper!”
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Chicago theatre review:
“[They] make Shakespeare’s text crystal clear, something which is helpful to the 21st century theatergoer’s ear.”
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Windy City Times:
“Isabel Lee Roden brings both comic energy and unabashed fury to the Nurse.”
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Chicago theatre review:
“Isabel is terrific at mastering both the verse and the vocabulary.”
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FEB 2025
Playing Feste (and composing original music!) in Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Center, directed by Nana Dakin.
Playing Olivia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband at the American Shakespeare Center, in collaboration with Expand The Canon, directed by Emily Lyon.