Isley is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. They won the 2025 Imison Award for their first radio play TETHER.

Their latest play JOBSWORTH, co-written with Libby Rodliffe, opened at the Edinburgh Festival 2024 at the Pleasance Theatre: ★ ★ ★ ★ The Stage, ★ ★ ★ ★ Time Out, and is also in development for television.

They won the ‘Most Promising Playwright Award’ at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play THE SWELL, which opened to great acclaim at the Orange Tree Theatre and received a 2024 Olivier Awards nomination for Outstanding achievement in affiliate theatre, as well as being nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offies.

Isley’s play SKIN A CAT played at The Bunker as their premiere production in 2016. It was nominated for four Off West End Awards, including Best New Play. It was originally performed as part of the Vault Festival in London in January 2016, and was awarded ‘Pick Of The Year’ by the festival. It was picked up by Playground Entertainment for TV adaptation.

Their Plays 1 is published by Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury.

Isley is currently under commission to Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre By The Lake, and Vicky Graham Productions. They are a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme (2012), the Royal Court Invitation Studio Group (2013), the Soho Theatre Young Company from 2011-2012, and The Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers’ Group.

They have also written two short films, Taketh and Struck, the latter of which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and can be seen here: