Isabel Costa is an actress and director. She works in theater, cinema, and performing arts curation. She has a degree in theater from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She completed her training at the University of Warwick (England) and UNIRIO, in Rio de Janeiro. She has been a member of the theater company Os Possessos since 2014. In 2016, she completed her Erasmus Mundus Crossways in Cultural Narratives master’s degree, having studied at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the University of Perpignan in France, and the University of Guelph in Canada. In cinema, she has worked with Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, Miguel Nunes, Guilherme Daniel, Isadora Neves Marques, Leonor Noivo, and Susana Nobre. In 2019, she directed the creations “Maratona de Manifestos” and “Salão Para o Século XXI.” She presented her work at the MAAT Museum, the Municipal Theater of Porto – Rivoli, the Cumplicidades Festival, the Hosek Contemporary Gallery in Berlin, and the Temps D’Images Festival. In 2020/21, she curated the “Ciclo de Reenactments – Performance Arte Portuguesa” (Cycle of Reenactments – Portuguese Performance Art). In 2022, she curated the cycle “Sound and Future – Four Tools to Unblock the Present.” In 2023, she will direct the show “Som e Fúria” (Sound and Fury) at TBA and the show “Manifestos Para Depois do Fim do Mundo” (Manifestos for After the End of the World) at Culturgest. She has also presented her work in Ravenna, Italy, and Havana, Cuba. In 2024, she was selected for the European Fund for Emerging Artists. In 2025, she created, together with Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro, the show Burn Burn Burn, a production by Culturgest and Os Possessos.

Founded in 2013, Os Possessos is an artistic collective that brings together people from different fields (theater, cinema, music, science, and literature). Os Possessos work on theatrical and performance projects based on universal narratives and the creation of a common fiction about reality between artists and the public, with an emphasis on contemporary dramaturgy, collective creations, and their own authorship. Os Possessos currently has five members: Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro, Isabel Costa, João Pedro Mamede, Leonardo Garibaldi, and Leonor Buescu.