About

Isabella Dippel is an actress, vocalist, and writer currently based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a student of the Lyric Theatre program at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign.

Her most recent credits include Rachel Rizzuto’s Love Sucks at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts and Marley/Past/Belle/Yet to Come in Sturgeon Bay’s annual reading of A Christmas Carol, this year held at the Rogue Theater. Her next upcoming work will be as a soloist in Lyric Theatre Illinois’ Carnaval! celebration and spring production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Awards and honors include competition in the national round of the CS Music Vocal Competition and first place at 2023 Chicago NATS, both with The Ballad of Jane Doe from Ride the Cyclone. She has performed with UIUC, the International Lyric Academy, Champaign-Urbana Community Theatre, the Forst Inn, and Viterbo University, and has trained with institutions such as the Broadway Collective and American Players Theatre and with coaches including Dawn Harris, Lara Brooks, Sarah Wigley, Ann Schoenecker, Zakiya Young, and Jodie Langel. Isabella’s deepest hope is to have a positive impact on the world through her art.

 

“That you are here-that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” –Dead Poets Society

 

Headshot by Joe Taylor; full-body photos by fellow UIUC student Jessica Blomberg