Isabel Rose is perhaps best described as a renaissance creative spirit. After graduating from Yale summa cum laude, she began a career as an actress, starring both Off-Broadway and at The Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. in Beau Jest. She also appeared in numerous productions at the Williamstown Theater Festival and played the role of Tess Kittridge in the first National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation. After taking time off to earn her MFA in fiction and literature from Bennington college, Rose co-wrote the film Anything But Love, which was released in 2003 by Samuel Goldwyn. Rose also starred in the film opposite Andrew McCarthy and Eartha Kitt. She won Best Up and Coming Actress award at the San Diego Film Festival, and the film also won Audience Awards and Best Film awards at numerous festivals and is available now on video and DVD and can be seen regularly on Lifetime. Rose’s first novel, The J.A.P. Chronicles, was published by Doubleday in May, 2005 and was released in paperback in the summer of ’06. Her non-fiction essays have been included in two anthologies: The Honeymoon’s Over, Warner Books, and Money Changes Everything, Doubleday. In the spring of ’06, Rose performed a seven-week run of a musical version of her novel, The J.A.P. Chronicles, which she also composed. Her first jazz album, Boy Wanted, will be released soon. She is currently at work on her second novel for Doubleday, as well as creating a project for children that includes original songs, stories and video.