Isabel Shaida is a performer and climate organizer living in Bozeman, MT. She devises original ensemble-driven projects and works as a movement director and teaching artist. She credits her theater work with teaching her how to experience and process the world in an embodied way. She was an artist in the 2018/19 SITI Conservatory program where she trained in The Suzuki Method of Actor Training and Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints. She continued her study of the Six Viewpoints under Barney O’Hanlon, Wendell Beavers, and Deborah Black, all of whom teach Viewpoints as a living tradition that manifests with the artist and student who explores them.

Isabel has studied developmental movement, somatic practice, Grotowski style training, and Laban movement as well and grounds her theater and her political work in the physical. She believes that through bringing more awareness to our bodies and to our body experience, we can learn to care for ourselves and each other, live in interdependence, and create true structural change.

Isabel is a company member of Nervous Theatre (Chalk Circle, A Marvelous Party) and teaches at Verge Theater where she has served as assistant director for Songs for a New World and My Barking Dog. She has performed with Monica Bill Barnes & Co. (Days Go By, It’s 3:07 Again) and Double Edge Theatre (The Odyssey).