Isabella is a writer, director and production designer based on Gadigal and Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). Isabella holds a Master of Arts: Screen in Directing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2022), a Bachelor of Dramatic Art from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (2014) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours: Class I) from Sydney College of the Arts (2011).

As writer and director, Isabella is interested in subjective realist works. Her work in production design informs to her approach to detailed world-building for screen. Isabella’s short surreal drama, Under the Water (writer/director, 2023) premiered at the 33rd Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in 2024. Her previous directing work includes: music video Monska for C. R. Robin (writer/director, 2020) and music video Ice Age for Cilla Jane (writer/director, 2018). Monska was awarded the Women in Film and Television (WIFT) Audience Favourite Award (2021), was nominated for Best Concept at the Clipped Music Video Awards (2020) and was a finalist in the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards (2020). In 2024, Isabella and her filmmaking colleague, Beck Thompson were selected as part of the Inner West Film Fest Pitching Competition to present on their feature film, Lyrebird.

As production designer, Isabella has recently designed: short comedy, Too Many Ethnics (2023, Dir. Vonne Patiag, short film, winner: Best Production Design, Made in the West Film Festival), surreal coming-of-age tale, All Silent Dogs (2022, Dir. Natalia Stawyskyj, short film, Nomination: Best Production Design for a Short Film, Music Video or Web Series Award, APDG 2023), queer magic realist drama, The Greenhouse (2021, feature film, Netflix, Dir. Thomas Wilson-White) and day-in-the-life tale of two sisters, Furlough (2021, short film, Dir. Phoebe Tonkin). Isabella been nominated for ten Australian Production Design Guild (APDG) awards. In 2014, Isabella won the APDG Award for Emerging Design for Live Performance for her work on The Greeks. In 2018, she was selected a finalist for the Dutch National Touring Opera Challenge for set and costume designs for Jevenji Onegin, directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till.

Isabella is dedicated to gender equity, diversity and inclusivity in her practice.