Isaac Lamb, director of the Immersive Summer Theatre Program

Isaac Lamb

Isaac Lamb (program director) is a directing graduate of Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, founding director of the Broadway Rose Teen Summer Workshop, founding director of the Lewis & Clark Immersive Summer Theatre Program, and a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre. He is a professional actor, director, and educator with over two decades of experience in the field, including national Broadway tours, major regional theatres, and multidisciplinary theatre, film, and television projects. As an actor he spent seven years touring Broadway’s longest-running one person show, Defending the Caveman, as well as starring in television shows including The Rehearsal (HBO), American Vandal (Netflix), Portlandia (IFC), The Birch (CryptTV) and the films Lean on Pete (BBC/Film4), Test Screening (FrightFest), and North Starr (Sundance). Favorite directing projects include: the world premiere of Middletown Mall, The Music Man, Arlington, The Angry Brigade, and Annapurna (Third Rail); Hair and The Bells That Still Can Ring (Portland Center Stage); Once, Fly By Night, Ordinary Days, and the world premiere of Loch Lomond (Broadway Rose); Grounded and the world premiere of db (CoHo); Mother Teresa is Dead (Portland Playhouse); Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean (Oregon Children’s Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (PHAME); and Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum (In Mulieribus). After retiring from the road, Isaac was hired as the resident director for the national tour and Las Vegas productions of Defending the Caveman. Eventually Isaac met his wife, Amy, and they settled back in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, where they live and raise their twin children, Hazel and Ezra, and two precocious cats. Isaac has performed at nearly every major professional theatre in the greater Portland area. Proud member SDC, SAG-AFTRA, and AEA.