Writer
Director
Producer
Dark comedy that cuts close.
Brooklyn, NY / Theatre & FilmOn stage &
on screen
Neon Orphans
Gene Frankel Theatre Festival
December 5, 10 & 16, 2026
What If I Stay?
Meliora Film Festival premiere
November 2026
Featured work / 01–03
View all work ↗Selected provocations.
Women Who Cut
Writing / Directing
The feminist revolution is trending.
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Neon Orphans
Writing / Directing
Two DJs, once friends and now bitter rivals, are forced to reunite. The collab will be surveilled.
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What If I Stay?
Film / Screenwriting
A daughter confronts her late mother and questions life and death.
⟶A littlebeautifullycomplicated.
Behind the work
I’m Ariella, a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and producer creating darkly comic stories about power, intimacy, and the parts of ourselves we would rather hide.
Best Director, Circle Theater Festival
Michael Collyer Fellow / Menn Prize
Meet Ariella
I’m Ariella, a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and producer creating darkly comic stories about power, intimacy, and the parts of ourselves we would rather hide. My work invites audiences into uncomfortable territory with morally complicated characters and a sharp sense of humor.
My plays have appeared at AMT Theater, SoHo Playhouse, Theaterlab, and the NYC Fringe Festival. I won Best Director for Women Who Cut at the 2025 Circle Theater Festival and was named the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellow in Screenwriting.
Libra, INFJ, Enneagram Type 4—a deadly combo.
SELECTED RECOGNITION
A few bright spots.
Best Director
Women Who Cut
Circle Theater Festival · 2025
Michael Collyer Fellow
Screenwriting
Writers Guild of America, East & the Black List
Menn Prize
Playwriting
University of Chicago
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