Isabella Dawis is a Filipina-American theatermaker and musician from Minneapolis. A current Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, she is the recipient of the Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre, the Fred Ebb Award for musical theater songwriting, the Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award, the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice Fellowship, and the Coalition of Asian American Leaders Ignite Fund. Isabella is the founder of the hybrid performing arts company Sansrival, which launches with the docufiction podcast “Lakecastle” in spring 2026. Her work as a playwright and composer has been presented and supported by the Atlanta Opera, the Kurt Weill Foundation, Weston Theater Company, the 5th Avenue Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, Ten Thousand Things, Theater Mu, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Tofte Lake Center, Ancram Center for the Arts, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, the O’Neill Center, Theater Latté Da, Goodspeed Musicals, the Civilians, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Minneapolis Center for Performing Arts, and Open Eye Theatre, among others. As a soprano and actor, Isabella has appeared onstage with the Guthrie Theater, the Center for Contemporary Opera, the Minnesota Opera, Theater Mu, the Jungle Theatre, New Ohio Theatre, and many more. She is a member of the rock band Kiss the Tiger (keys/vocals)