Ariella Carmell is a playwright, screenwriter, and producer whose work is darkly comic and provocative. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she was honored with the 2019 Olga and Paul Menn Prize for Playwriting and named the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellow in Screenwriting by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Black List that same year.

Her theatrical work ranges from intimate character studies to ensemble pieces, all rooted in indelible settings and populated by compelling characters. Plays include Sit for Me (SoHo Playhouse;TheaterLab), Please Let Me Save You (Emerging Artists Theater; NYC Fringe Festival), and Her Resting Place (New York Theater Festival). This year, she made her directorial debut with her play Women Who Cut as part of Circle Theater Festival at AMT Theater, where she won the award for Best Director and the play was honored for Best Ensemble and Best Actor in a Comedy (Chelsea LeSage).

Ariella's screen work includes the feature screenplay Know Your Body, which has received recognition from BlueCat, the Austin Film Festival, and other competitions, and Fathers and Daughters, developed through the Collyer Fellowship and recognized by the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinals. She recently completed a short film to be directed by her collaborator Chelsea LeSage and has several other projects in multiple genres and mediums in development.

As a performer, she has trained at T. Schreiber Studio and the Acting Studio, appearing in various productions. Her writings have been published in Alma, the Brooklyn Review, the Sierra Nevada Review, and by the Jewish Book Council. She lives in New York City.