Isabel Quintero is an actor of theater, television, film and radio in Chicago. ​ She is represented by DDO Chicago and a member of SAG-AFTRA/AEA. She is

the recipient of Chicago's DCASE Esteemed Artist Award 2022. 

 

She has appeared on a number of Chicago stages (Goodman, Steppenwolf, Porchlight) on television (The Chi, Chicago P.D.) and in  independent feature length and short films, (Holy Trinity, L.A.I.D: Life as It's Dealt, A Handful of Dirt, Lunch in Lima, Little Sparrow, Under the Skyway).

 

​Isabel self-produced and sang on the Latin American Music album La Osa Menor in 2015.  It premiered at Steppenwolf's LookOut Series in May of 2019.  

 

In August of 2023 she wrote and performed a two hour, epic storytelling journey, backed by six local and international musicians, titled La Osa Menor (or Ursa Minor /the Little Bear) based on the making of the album and directed by Esteban Arevalo Ibanez. 

 

Fully bilingual, she had a busy career as a radio announcer in her early 20s, working in both English and Spanish in Miami, Chicago and Champagne-Urbana, (Mornings on Rock 107FM WPGU, Spanish Morning Drive on Romance 106.7FM, weekends on The Coast 97.3FM, production for AM 610 WIOD and as producer on WNUA 95.5FM with Ramsey Lewis). She has been voicing commercials for radio, television and other media since she was 12 years old.  

​Her play Give Me A Sign won 3rd place at the 9th Annual Nuevas Voces Ten Minute Play Contest NEIU October 2025.  Yes, she is also a playwright. 

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