Bella Higginbotham

Bella Higginbotham is from Nashville, Tennessee. A pretender since she could speak, Bella began acting on stage when she was only five years old, playing Wacky The Puppet in the musical Annie at a local theater. She was so focused and present on stage that audience members often mistook her for an actual puppet, not realizing she was a real child until curtain call. Bella began her professional career at age 6 playing Gretl in The Sound of Music with Nashville's premiere equity theater, Studio Tenn, (alongside Broadway veterans Ben Davis and Jessica Grove) and later played several iconic stage roles with the same company, among them: Cosette in Les Miserables (with Broadway veterans Michael Elrod, Chuck Todd, Rachael Potter, and Jake Speck), Zuzu in It's A Wonderful Life, and Lucy in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Other Studio Tenn credits include Gypsy, A Christmas Carol, and Evita (in a historic performance alongside Broadway veterans Eden Espinosa, Anthony Crivello, René M