Isaías Badilla
Acting
Biography
Isaías Badilla is a Costa Rican actor and filmmaker based in New York. He trained at the Taller Nacional de Teatro in Costa Rica and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. As an actor, he has appeared in films that have screened at international festivals including the Tribeca Festival (world premiere), the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Short Film Market Picks), the Festival de Málaga, the Austin Film Festival, and the Miami Film Festival, where the film received the Best International Short Film award, among others. His theatre credits include work with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Teatro LATEA, The Tank, and the American Theater of Actors. Internationally, he appeared as Connor Murphy in Querido Evan (Dear Evan Hansen). In 2024, he co-founded Purple Duck LLC, an independent production company through which he develops, writes, and directs film projects, including a recent 16mm piece exploring the experiences of immigrant artists in New York City.
Known For
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
West Side Story
A Woman anxiously awaits a man’s call to feel desired. A Woman and Another Woman- who could be many others, or even the same one—cross paths in the bathroom of a bar that could be like so many others.
The Other Woman
When Ana's childhood friend dies she attempts to skip the five stages of grief with the help of her best friends, ex-boyfriends and naked Twister.
Good Mourning
The Act of Seeing is a multi-layered experiment in narrative storytelling. Five vignettes are shown from three different perspectives - Each perspective is visually interpreted in a stage of the Cosmogonic Cycle.
The Act of Seeing
It is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in 1985, but love represents much more than only sharing life together.
Un Regalo Esencial
A cameraman wanders around Times Square.
Ghosts
In the heart of Corona, Queens, two Ecuadorian siblings are placed at odds with each other when one reveals a sudden urge to leave their home.
Ñaños
Two classmates decide to make a short film about drugs to enter their school’s Arts Festival; however, things don’t go as they planned.
Vertigo
A middle-aged woman confronts loneliness as she reflects on her past.
Solitude
A mournful woman seeks redemption in a cemetery.
Farewell
In a modern and superficial New York City, a grieving woman encounters an unusual person on the street, blurring the lines between dreams and reality.
Threnody
A teenager faces overwhelming absurdity.
III
A woman struggles to overcome a powerful, elusive force.
Stigma
A day in a retirement home.
Introspection
Through movement, a man strips away the chains of contemporary society.
Winter Dance
When an exciting stranger named Vi comes to twins Jesse and Kurt’s small town looking for rare videotapes, their lives unravel into uncertainty. As Vi’s life tangles with their own, the twins are forced to confront whether their post-college lives are comfortable, complaisant, or worse.
A Yarn.
A man reminisces about home while watching TV.
Homesick
Two friends see their dream of making music together complicated when their guitar is stolen, forcing them to search the city to get it back.
Second Avenue
An interview, a dance, and a poem.