Isabella Gutierrez

Isabella (Bella) Gutierrez is an Australian-born actress and leading drama educator born in Sydney on 11 November 1970. She has been an actor in theatre, television and live performance. She was part of the original cast of the Australian television series "Heartbreak High" in1994 in the principal role of Chaka Cardenes. She performed with the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), Bell Shakespeare Company, Ensemble Theatre as well as the Sydney Festival, Theatre South, Toe Truck Theatre, Festival of the Dreaming, Moomba Festival and others in a variety of productions. In recent years she has specialized in performing arts education in Australia and completed a Masters in Applied Theatre Studies at the University of New England and lives with her family in New South Wales, Australia where she is the Director of Performing Arts at a leading school. She also trained in dance at the University of NSW, and then Theatre Performance at Nepean (now Western Sydney University).