Arielle Jacobs

Arielle Jacobs
Born (1983-09-09) September 9, 1983
San Francisco, California
Occupation Singer, actress, performer
Known for High School Musical on Stage!
In the Heights
Wicked, and Aladdin

Arielle Jacobs (born September 9 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress, mostly seen on stage in musicals.

Biography

Jacobs was born in San Francisco, with a Filipino mother and an American father. She later moved to Half Moon Bay, California, and then to New York. Her older brother is Adam Jacobs, who is also a theatre performer.

Jacobs takes an active interest in environmentalism and animal rights, maintaining an environmental website called "Help Heal the Earth." She currently resides on the East and West coasts of the United States, spending time in New York City as well as Los Angeles.

Jacobs attended Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, where she performed with The Princeton High School Choir. She graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance.[1]

Dancing since the age of three, she studied ballet, tap, and jazz. Jacobs' first time in front of an audience was at the age of seven, as a Christmas present in a school play. She began studying voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and later at the Westminster Conservatory of Music. Her first taste of professional theatre came at the age of ten when she was cast in a new musical called Honor Song for Crazy Horse at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts in California.[1]

Career

She was also a featured performer in a memorial service for the September 11 attacks in New York City, as well as a guest star on Disney 365.[1] She then appeared in the revue For the Record: Baz Luhrmann in Los Angeles, presented by Show at Barre. It ran from February 12, 2011, to April 30, 2011.[2]

Other roles include the role of Jennifer in the 2005 film Water Lillies and an appearance on the TV series Commander in Chief.

Regional theatre credits include Camelot, A Chorus Line, and Ragtime.[1]

She appeared as Rosa in the musical The Rose of Corazon at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.

Stage Credits

Year Title Role Theater Notes
2007 Disney's High School Musical Gabriella Montez Various National Tour
2009 In the Heights [3] Nina Rosario Various [4] National Tour
2010 In the Heights Nina Rosario [5] Richard Rodgers Theatre Broadway Debut

She played the role from November 15, 2010, to the show's closing on January 9, 2011

2015 Wicked Nessarose Gershwin Theatre
2016 Aladdin Princess Jasmine Her Majesty's Theatre Australian production [6]

Jacobs performed her last show as Princess Jasmine on December 4, 2016 [7]

2018 Aladdin Princess Jasmine New Amsterdam Theatre Broadway production [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Arielle Jacobs' website". Arielle Jacobs.
  2. ↑ "Jenna Leigh Green, Arielle Jacobs & Kate Reinders star in Baz Lurhmann (sic) concert series". broadwayworld.com. February 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ Oliveros, Oliver. "Film Actress Arielle Jacobs Plays Lead In IN THE HEIGHTS National Tour". broadwayworld.com.
  4. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (October 27, 2009). "In the Heights Tour Launches in Tampa; Beltran, Toro, Jacobs, Santora Star". Playbill.
  5. ↑ Bacalzo, Dan. "Arielle Jacobs to Replace Jordin Sparks in Broadway's In the Heights". Theatermania.com.
  6. ↑ "Aladdin in Melbourne". Theatrepeople.com.
  7. ↑ http://www.broadwayworld.com/australia-melbourne/article/Arielle-Jacobs-to-Depart-Australias-ALADDIN-This-December-20161102
  8. ↑ "Aladdin Cast Page". aladdinthemusical.com.
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