
Isaac Gomez
Speaker
PANEL: The Future of Infinite Dreaming
Isaac Gómez (they/them) is an award-winning New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago based playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and many others. They are the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. Their television credits include the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, Apple TV’s The Last Thing He Told Me, Paramount Plus’s Joe Pickett, among others. They have had television series and features developed by FX, Focus Features, MRC Entertainment and others. A proud member of the Writers Guild of America West, Isaac is also a WGA Captain, served as a Strike Captain during the historic 2023 Writers Guild Strike, and was nominated by the union to run for Vice President in 2023. Isaac strives to tell stories that often go untold across all mediums of writing.