About this Artist
Arielle Jacobs starred as ‘Princess Jasmine’ in the smash-hit Broadway musical Disney’s Aladdin, and recently starred as ‘Imelda Marcos’ opposite Lea Salonga in the historic, first-ever, all-Filipino Broadway cast of David Byrne’s Here Lies Love. Ms. Jacobs made her Broadway debut as ‘Nina Rosario,’ starring opposite Lin-Manuel Miranda in the final Broadway cast of his four-time Tony® and Grammy® award-winning musical In the Heights. She originated the role of ‘Gabriella’ in Disney’s High School Musical on Stage, based on the hit original Disney Channel film, and the role of ‘Delilah’ in the Off-Broadway musical Between the Lines, based on the book by NY Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult. She voiced the immersive sci-fi film Postcard from Earth, directed by Darren Aronofsky for the largest screen on earth, now playing in 18k at the MSG SPHERE in Las Vegas. She recorded two songs for the comic book character ‘Spintress,’ a new singing Marvel superhero introduced in the Marvel comic series Edge of the Spiderverse #4, written by David Hein. Praised as “compelling” and “radiant” by Variety Magazine, and her voice as “powerful” by The New York Times, Ms. Jacobs has continued to wow audiences with starring roles in Wicked on Broadway, Rent (Mimi), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia) at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, and Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife) where she performed opposite Emmy®-nominated actor Tituss Burgess. She has starred Off-Broadway in two world-premiere plays by Pulitzer-winning playwright and director Nilo Cruz, entitled Sotto Voce and Farhad or the Secret of Being (a one-woman show filmed for the Lincoln Center Public Library Archives). While her singing voice can be heard on film scores and on television, she has also performed onstage in many of America's greatest concert halls including Lincoln Center in NYC, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Symphony Hall in Boston, Yale Hall, the Saenger Theater in New Orleans, Kauffman Center, and many more, beside legendary artists such as Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, and Stephen Schwartz. Ms. Jacobs is also the founder of @TheBroadwayPup which sells punny Broadway-themed pet bandanas & donates 100% of profits to animal rescue charities, & co-founder of @SanctaviaOfficial. Connect here @ArielleJacobs.