ABOUT
Isabella is a writer, director and production designer based on Gadigal and Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). She loves working collaboratively to bring stories to life. Isabella is interested in the use of visual storytelling, aural metaphor and experimental techniques to explore character psychology.

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 background 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).

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.

EDUCATION
Master of Arts: Screen (Directing)
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 2022

Microcert Digital Storytelling
Melbourne University, 2020

Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design)
National Institute of Dramatic Art, 2014

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours: Class I)
Sydney College of the Arts, 2011

AWARDS
Finalist: Inner West Film Fest Pitching Competition, 2024, for feature film project Lyrebird,
Creator: Beck Thompson, Directors: Beck Thompson, Isabella Andronos

Winner: Best Production Design for Too Many Ethnics,
Production Design: Isabella Andronos, Made in the West Film Festival, 2023

Nomination: APDG Award for Production or Costume Design for a Short Film, Music Video or Web Series for All Silent Dogs,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2023.

Nomination: APDG Award for Design for Live Perfomance or Event for Zombie Thoughts,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2022.

Winner: Audience Choice, Women in Film and Television (WIFT) Awards for Monska,
Director/ Designer: Isabella Andronos, 2021.

Nomination: APDG Award for Design for Live Performance or Event for La Finta Giardiniera,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2021.

Director’s feature, Clipped.tv Online Premiere for Monska.
Director/ Designer: Isabella Andronos, 2020.

Finalist: Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards for Monska,
Director/ Designer: Isabella Andronos, 2020.

Nomination: APDG Award for Design For A Short Film or Music Video for Strangers,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2019.

Nomination: APDG Award for Design for Live Performance for Billionaire Boy,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2019.

Nomination: APDG Photoplay Award For Design For A Commercial for Koala Mattress (Ex)orcism,
Production and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2019.

Finalist: Dutch National Touring Opera Challenge for Eugene Onegin,
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos Director: Elsie Edgerton-Till, Nederlandse Reisopera, Netherlands, 2018.

Nomination: World Stage Design 2017, for The Fairy Queen,
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, 2017.

Nomination: Costume Design for Stage for A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2015.

Nomination: Costume Design for Stage, for Blood Wedding,
Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2015.

Winner: Emerging Live Performance Design for The Greeks,
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos , Australian Production Design Guild, 2014.

Nomination: Emerging Live Performance Design for Fewer Emergencies,
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos, Australian Production Design Guild, 2014.

Recipient: William Fletcher Foundation Tertiary Grant,
Awarded to Isabella Andronos, William Fletcher Foundation, 2014.