Isabella Van Braeckel : Designer for Performance

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Isabella is an award winning Set & Costume Designer for Theatre, Dance & Opera and Art Director for Immersive Theatre.

Her designs are inspired by close collaboration, bold visuals and textural exploration. Based in London, Isabella has worked across highly acclaimed Fringe venues, within the West End and across Europe.

Since graduating from Central St Martins, she has designed productions including The Ring Cycle at Freemasons Hall, Covent Garden, RedINK, which toured venues including Sadlers Wells, The Place & Leicester Curve; Cancelling Socrates at the Jermyn Street Theatre; DUAL at the Vault Festival & U.K. tour; and Blanket Ban at the Southwark Playhouse.

As an Art Director she has worked on major productions including Secret Cinema Presents : Dirty Dancing in London and Peaky Blinders : The Rise in Riyadh Festival, Saudi Arabia.

As an Associate Designer, Isabella has worked with designers including Soutra Gilmour, Rebecca Brower & Chiara Stephenson. Her varied experience has also allowed her to design outside the theatre environment and also Costume Supervise at venues including the Orange Tree Theatre and Grange Park Opera.

Isabella was nominated for a 2025 Offie for her Costume Design on Dorian : The Musical, and was the Associate Designer on the Offie 2024 Award Winner for Production & Set Design The White Factory at the Marylebone Theatre.
She has been a Jerwood Young Designer (Gate Theatre), Long-listed for the Old Vic 12 and was a Punchdrunk Design Trainee on The Drowned Man.


What People Say

“Flawless Set Design”

Sophia Halpin, Theatre box

“Isabella Van Braeckel’s minimal set […] evokes a place of desolate beauty”

Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman

“Continually feels both ancient and modern”

Andrew Haydon, Postcards from the Gods

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