Isabelle Garbani is an actor, writer, and actor based in Brooklyn NY, with an MFA in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art. After years of making community-engaged public installations, she has returned to her performance roots.

Isabelle has appeared in numerous plays around New York City: The Seagull at SI Shakespeare Theater, Measure for Measure at Stag and Lion, Almost Maine at Urban Waves, A Tale of Love and Perimenopause at The Theater for a New City, About That Letter and Apostrophe! at the American Theater of Actors.

She has appeared in independent and short films such as Meanie, The Perfect Daughter, Ourika! (selected for the Sundance Festival), and Eat It Up! She just finished shooting a commercial with Keke Palmer for La Roche-Posay.

She has puppeteered in The Return of the Buffalo, based at St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn, where 40 life-size buffaloes walked and ran in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

She has studied acting at the Barrow Group with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock in New York City. She studied puppeteering with Wonder Sparks Puppets at the Jim Henson Carriage House in New York City, and Sandglass Theater in Vermont.

Photos by Dirty Sugar