Isabel Hagen

Isabel Hagen’s hour-long comedy special, Isabel Hagen at The Bitter End, is out now and can be viewed on the streaming platform VEEPS.

Deadline describes the show as featuring “Hagen’s sharp joke writing and off-beat point of view with classical viola playing and original songs.” Isabel draws from her life “as a working classical musician with anxiety” and “blends existential humor and raunchy anecdotes with Bach and Mozart.”

VEEPS Head of Comedy Bart Coleman says: “Isabel is a singular talent who perfectly embodies the intersection of world-class comedy and live music.”

Trailer:

https://veeps.com/isabelhagen/14a03622-ff4d-4718-a0c2-26182a81f14a

She is a nationally touring stand-up comedian and classically trained violist. As a comedian, she has been featured twice on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was named a New Face of Comedy at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montréal.

Isabel started stand-up right after earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in viola performance from The Juilliard School. As a musician, she has performed as a touring member of the band Vampire Weekend and has also performed and worked with numerous artists including Björk, Ed Sheeran, Max Richter, The National, and Steve Reich.

As a filmmaker, her debut feature film ON A STRING, which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. It won Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature and also won Best Narrative Feature at the Naples Film Festival, as well as the Focus of the Arts Award.

She has over 127,000 followers on Instagram.