AriDy Nox

AriDy Nox is an experienced worldbuilder and creative strategist who utilizes their diverse talents to create pockets of liberation as frequently and joyfully as possible. They are an acclaimed playwright, librettist, and lyricist, as well as an emerging composer, novelist, and blogger. They have over a decade of nonprofit experience and are currently a Co-Executive Director at Musical Theatre Factory. Whether it is through musicals or administrative processes, AriDy is dedicated to creating pathways to freedom that encourage people to shape a better world for themselves and their communities. Their work is an offering and exists within an ancient and expansive tradition of worldbuilding, created for and by people of marginalized experience. They are a graduate of the Graduate Musical...

AriDy Nox is an experienced worldbuilder and creative strategist who utilizes their diverse talents to create pockets of liberation as frequently and joyfully as possible. They are an acclaimed playwright, librettist, and lyricist, as well as an emerging composer, novelist, and blogger. They have over a decade of nonprofit experience and are currently a Co-Executive Director at Musical Theatre Factory. Whether it is through musicals or administrative processes, AriDy is dedicated to creating pathways to freedom that encourage people to shape a better world for themselves and their communities. Their work is an offering and exists within an ancient and expansive tradition of worldbuilding, created for and by people of marginalized experience. They are a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts at NYU, a beneficiary of the inaugural Musical Theatre Factory MAKERS cohort (2019/2020), a Public Theatre Emerging Writer’s Group fellow (2020/2023), a Live and In Color June Bingham Commissioned Writer (2020/2023), a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer (2022/2025), a Rattlestick Theatre Van Lier New Voices Fellow (2023/2024), a Richard Rodgers Musical Theatre Award recipient (2025), and an Artist-in-Residence at Ars Nova (2025/2026). They are They have been privileged to do their work all around the world and in collaboration with many incredible people of various backgrounds.

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Scripts

Death Comes in Threes (a suicide play in three acts)

by AriDy Nox

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Cast Size
2
Genre
biography,
comedy,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
tragedy

In a bedroom at the edge of a meadow at the edge of a cliff at the edge of a shoreline, Me and
Myself wait (im)patiently for Death. A meeting of Samule Beckett’s Endgame and Waiting for
Godot (with just a dash of black feminist philosophizing), this show explores suicidality and
liberation in equal measure, with an unfaltering commitment to humor.

In a bedroom at the edge of a meadow at the edge of a cliff at the edge of a shoreline, Me and
Myself wait (im)patiently for Death. A meeting of Samule Beckett’s Endgame and Waiting for
Godot (with just a dash of black feminist philosophizing), this show explores suicidality and
liberation in equal measure, with an unfaltering commitment to humor.

The Wetlands

by AriDy Nox

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
horror,
movement/physical,
political

The Wetlands takes place in a liminal space made of all the wetlands that ever were and ever will be. Here, Nita and Tara find themselves trapped in a deadly race against time as they desperately seek a way out of this limbo...before it's too late. The Wetlands serve as both caretaker and prison for our two protagonists as they struggle with their captivity, with each other, and with their respective pasts. But...

The Wetlands takes place in a liminal space made of all the wetlands that ever were and ever will be. Here, Nita and Tara find themselves trapped in a deadly race against time as they desperately seek a way out of this limbo...before it's too late. The Wetlands serve as both caretaker and prison for our two protagonists as they struggle with their captivity, with each other, and with their respective pasts. But the only way out is through, and with the audience there to bear witness, Nita and Tara bravely face what haunts them in order to make a way for a new beginning.

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A Walless Church

by AriDy Nox

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Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

A Walless Church: The Black Women’s Guide To Creating God is a Living Room play/ritual/lecture where three godlings give insight into how one creates the divine. Oru, Nona, and Mo interweave between narrator and protagonist and teacher and student and priestess and witness and god and God recklessly. Oru, the seasoned expert, navigates every twist with aplomb. Nona, the perfectionist, bristles at every...

A Walless Church: The Black Women’s Guide To Creating God is a Living Room play/ritual/lecture where three godlings give insight into how one creates the divine. Oru, Nona, and Mo interweave between narrator and protagonist and teacher and student and priestess and witness and god and God recklessly. Oru, the seasoned expert, navigates every twist with aplomb. Nona, the perfectionist, bristles at every compromise. And Mo, the newbie, revels in the experience even as she struggles not to be overcome with self-doubt. When things go wrong (as they inevitably must) they go very wrong: Spirits become stickier than they should be, walls between the worlds grow thin and love between black women grows sour, souring the godlings recipe. While Oru, Nona, and Mo struggle to create a God worthy of Creation, they also struggle with the various black women they haphazardly embody, all of whom are struggling to see the God within themselves. But our godlings are persistent and they refuse to fail. At least, not without a fight.

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