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 Lucy Westenra in Dracula: the Vampire Play with Penny Dreadful Players and Christine/Pamina in Lyric Under the Stars with Lyric Theatre Illinois, and her next upcoming work will be in Sturgeon Bay’s annual reading of A Christmas Carol at the Rogue Theater as well as Carnaval! and L’Orfeo with Lyric Theatre Illinois. 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 Lara Brooks, Dawn Harris, 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.

 

“Good music can make you feel things you can’t express in words.” -Mo Montgomery, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

 

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