About Arielle

A St. Louis, Missouri native, Arielle is a junior in the Musical Theatre program at Brigham Young University, and also studying classical repertoire as a vocal performer. 

Professional credits include, Tarzan MUNY, Fredrika in A Little Night Music at Union Avenue Opera, Mary Poppins with Variety Theatre and Complete Works with Shakespeare in the Valley.  Please see her revues found on her press page.  

While at BYU, she has had a blast  portraying the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love, Mrs. Medlock in Secret Garden, Mrs. Childs in Crazy For You and being in other various creative student projects.

As a lyric-coloratura soprano, she has graced many stages singing with international countertenor Terry Barber’s National Tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber since the age of eleven, with the Kingsbury Ensemble and Northwinds Concert Band.  She a NATS  Emerging Professional.

Arielle teaches young aspiring vocalists and thespians, creates choreography for high school show choirs and YouTube videos. When she is not performing on stage, she loves to hike, crochet, paint artwork and studies astronomy.  

Her Early Beginnings

At the age of two, Arielle's family suspected that she was gifted in performing arts.  They will never forget the night she surprised them with her first monologue of Sally in "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown."  Her older brother said inquisitively, "Are we sure she belongs to us?"  It was then that they discovered that she could memorize anything, including expressions of a character.  One year later, she sang her first solo in Church and started taking dance and piano lessons.  

In October of 2012, she watched The Phantom of the Opera for the first time.  Little did she know that weekend would change her life!  Her parents noticed her singing the challenging Andrew Lloyd Webber songs throughout the house.  So they purchased the accompaniment cd and said, "Sing for me!" Not only had she memorized the entire opera, but she was able to hit the highest note from the theme song of The Phantom of the Opera. (at the age of 8!)  Within a few short months, her family also discovered she has perfect pitch and can tell you what key any music is in after listening for a few notes, without any training to be able to do so.

She began her vocal training singing with The St. Louis Children's Choir in 2013-2015, and private voice with St. James Voice Studio from 2014-2016.  The legendary Nance St. James was and will always be a special teacher as she continued to drill Arielle each week on scales, sight reading and arpeggios well into her 90's, until a few days before she passed away.  She also made multiple trips to NYC to receive private acting lessons from Mimi Stuart at the Children's Acting Academy.  

From 2016-2020, Arielle trained with Heather McKenzie Patterson through Patterson Performing Arts who took her voice to a new level.  In 2020, after working in a show with Debby Lennon, Arielle shifted her training.  As a professor of vocal performance at Webster University and a professional vocalist and performer in the St. Louis region,  Arielle was able to strengthen her vocal skills and resume' under Debby's mentorship.  In her youth, she also continued to take dance and study acting with Michael James Reed in her home town.

Opportunities & Awards

While in college, Arielle was the St. Louis Chapter winner of the Shirley Rabb Winston Competition in 2024.   She has been a consistent winner and finalist in both the California West and Central States Regions' National Association Teachers Singing (NATS) Vocal Pedagogy Competitions, and a finalist, award winner and college scholarship recipient in the 2020-22 Schmidt Vocal Arts Competitions. 

As a youth, she performed at the Fox Theatre with the Moscow's Ballet Nutcracker and while competing as a finalist in the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation Teen Competition winning the Musical Theatre Scholarship.  

Pre-professional performances have been with COCA St. Louis, Showcases in NYC, Rock Show Productions, Stray Dog Theatre,  O'Fallon Theatre Works and Spotlight Productions. She was nominated Best Actress by Arts For Life in 2017 & '18, and Best Supporting Actress 2019.  The St. Louis High School Musical Theatre Awards also voted her Best Supporting Actress in 2020.  

For fun, you can find Arielle performing with her sister Jilane with J'Paws Puppetry, singing the National Anthem at professional and collegiate sporting events, or performing for Church and interfaith events.

Although she loves the stage, some of her best performances are when she is performing for the elderly at assisted living facilities, or for children with autism.  As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she fully acknowledges her gifts are from her Heavenly Father, and enjoys spreading happiness to others in service.