About

Isabella Dippel is a soprano, actress, and writer based in London. She is currently a student of the Master of Arts in Musical Theatre: Acting and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and graduated with high honors from the Lyric Theatre program at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign.

This August, Isabella appeared as Luciana in Play-by-Play Theatre’s regional production of The Comedy of Errors. Other recent credits include Much Ado About Nothing with What You Will Theatre Company, Lyric Theatre’s annual Carnaval! revue, and a “disturbingly brilliant” turn as Johanna in Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Forst Inn Arts Collective.  Awards and honors include the Voice Achievement Award and Geraldine B. Cooke Award from the University of Illinois, as well as the national round of the CS Music Vocal Competition and first place at Chicago NATS, both with The Ballad of Jane Doe from Ride the Cyclone. She has performed with Play-by-Play Theatre, UIUC, the Forst Inn, the International Lyric Academy, Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, and Viterbo University, and has trained with institutions such as the Broadway Collective and American Players Theatre and with coaches including Scott MacLeod, Dawn Harris, Lara Brooks, Sarah Wigley, Nathan Gunn, Julie Gunn, Ann Schoenecker, Zakiya Young, and Jodie Langel. From Sondheim to Shakespeare, from opera to jazz to folk, Isabella is a versatile and passionate creative whose 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