Mara Isaacs is a Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning creative producer and founder of Octopus Theatricals, developing and producing plays, musicals and multi-disciplinary work across the globe. Selected highlights from 200 productions: Hadestown (Broadway, West End, North American Tour–Best Musical Tony and Grammy); Gypsy with Audra McDonald (Broadway); Patrick Page’s All the Devils Are Here (off-Broadway, North American Tour; …(Iphigenia) by Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding; Film: Hadestown: The Musical (release July 2026); I Feel Myself to be Part of Something (documentary anthology). Music: Founder and President, Octoverse Media (record label and multi-genre platform). Upcoming: Kunene and the King; A Beat of Our Own; Goddess; Get Out Alive; musical adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit. She is Entrepreneur in Residence with Yale’s Cultural Innovations Lab, Co-Founder of Producer Hub, and Co-Founder of Arts Impact Collaborative. Previously: Producing Director, McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ; Associate Producer at the Mark Taper Forum/CTG in Los Angeles.