Ariel Mitchell

Ariel Mitchell

Ariel Mitchell hails from a small island in the Chesapeake Bay. She was named a New Musical Inc. 2017 New Voices Project Finalist and has been featured in several developmental opportunities such as The Dramatists Guild 2017 Baltimore Footlights Reading Series, 2016 Artist Beit Midrash Group, Prospect Theater Company’s Fall 2015 Musical Theatre Lab, and The Catwalk Residency Program. She earned her BA in...
Ariel Mitchell hails from a small island in the Chesapeake Bay. She was named a New Musical Inc. 2017 New Voices Project Finalist and has been featured in several developmental opportunities such as The Dramatists Guild 2017 Baltimore Footlights Reading Series, 2016 Artist Beit Midrash Group, Prospect Theater Company’s Fall 2015 Musical Theatre Lab, and The Catwalk Residency Program. She earned her BA in Playwriting (Music minor) April 2013 from Brigham Young University and her MFA in Musical Theatre Writing May 2015 from New York University. She has written several plays including "Give Me Moonlight," a play inspired by Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, and "A Second Birth," a play about an afghan girl who was raised as a boy, for which she was awarded the KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg 2013 National Student Playwriting Award, third place for the 2013 David Mark Cohen Award, the 2011 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award, and a publication with Samuel French.

Plays

  • Give Me Moonlight by Ariel Mitchell
    Cast: 
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Surreal, dreams + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, melodrama, period
    Keyword: Surreal, dreams, extended reality, History, based on a true story, love, marriage, infertility, disability
    Some sorrow we bear alone. Some sorrow has to be shared. Give Me Moonlight is about the sorrow that is so deep that it can barely be felt let alone acknowledged in the bright light of day. This surrealist play tells the fictionalized true story of Bessie and Albert Johnson, a couple in early 1900s Chicago who seem to have everything. But when Bessie brings home a less-than-acceptable houseguest, the sorrows...
    Some sorrow we bear alone. Some sorrow has to be shared. Give Me Moonlight is about the sorrow that is so deep that it can barely be felt let alone acknowledged in the bright light of day. This surrealist play tells the fictionalized true story of Bessie and Albert Johnson, a couple in early 1900s Chicago who seem to have everything. But when Bessie brings home a less-than-acceptable houseguest, the sorrows that have been festering under the surface come seeping through the facades she and her husband have created to protect their life and marriage. Based on the history of Scotty's Castle, this new play explores why two people would risk what they barely have to build a castle for a con-artist in the middle of the desert.
  • The Shower Principle by Ariel Mitchell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: motherhood, maternity leave + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, political
    Keyword: motherhood, maternity leave, gender roles, baby, marriage, working women, scientists
    The show is a one woman led experiment into motherhood. Taking place over the six weeks of her maternity leave from an engineering position at a dental tool company, Liz discusses trials, challenges, shifts, and joys in her new occupation.
  • A Second Birth by Ariel Mitchell
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: drama, faith-based + 3 more
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    Keyword: Middle East, family + 6 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based, political, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: Middle East, family, gender, marriage, love, friendship, feminism, religion
    Nasima, a daughter of poor Afghani parents, has been raised as a boy since age five to improve the family’s economic and social standing in the community. When she must finally give up employment and education in order to (re)learn to be a girl so she can marry, Nasima must confront the relationships of her past and the traditions of her future to find out who she truly is.
  • Fill the Space by Ariel Mitchell
    Cast: 
    7–11
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy + 4 more
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    Keyword: fairy tale, love + 6 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy, musical, period, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: fairy tale, love, family, time travel, explorers, identity, maps, magical realism
    Two wanderers look to find something different than what they know. They fill their lives with travel. Our first protagonist, a colonial cartographer, seeks to discover the unknown but loses his focus when he loses his one chance at love. Our second protagonist, a modern-day Brazilian American, is in constant search of home and will cross the entire earth to find it. As they continue to search, traveling to a...
    Two wanderers look to find something different than what they know. They fill their lives with travel. Our first protagonist, a colonial cartographer, seeks to discover the unknown but loses his focus when he loses his one chance at love. Our second protagonist, a modern-day Brazilian American, is in constant search of home and will cross the entire earth to find it. As they continue to search, traveling to a certain place becomes more and more like running from where they are. They find themselves lost in a magical forest where hearts, feelings, and memories grow on trees.
  • Mormonish by Ariel Mitchell
    Cast: 
    7–10
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    Genre: drama, faith-based + 3 more
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    Keyword: religion, Adolescence + 6 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based, holiday, musical, young audiences
    Keyword: religion, Adolescence, questions, family, college, Sisters, death, identity
    Mormonish is a semi-autobiographical musical dramedy about how I ruined my family's life by asking too many questions.

    Amalia, a half Mormon, half Jewish (A.K.A. Mormonish), high school senior applies to colleges. A double legacy to Princeton, Amalia’s future is pretty clear. However, when she begins to draft a personal essay that would set her apart...
    Mormonish is a semi-autobiographical musical dramedy about how I ruined my family's life by asking too many questions.

    Amalia, a half Mormon, half Jewish (A.K.A. Mormonish), high school senior applies to colleges. A double legacy to Princeton, Amalia’s future is pretty clear. However, when she begins to draft a personal essay that would set her apart from the sea of applicants, she breaks the family’s ultimate rule and prays. Amalia’s increasingly urgent questions about her family’s religious background bring strongly felt but always concealed beliefs rocketing to the surface. The original, contemporary, guitar based score opens characters and expresses what can only be felt. Amalia has to decide to be who she is or to be loved.
  • Cut in Twain by Ariel Mitchell
    Cast: 
    6–14
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: family, Mark Twain + 6 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, opera, period, young audiences
    Keyword: family, Mark Twain, youth, innocence, huckleberry finn, aging, History, friendship
    Samuel L. Clemens, more well known as Mark Twain, spent his life trying to capture one of life's most fleeting attributes: innocence. In his last year of life, Clemens decides to organize the Aquarium club, in which young fans could come to provide him company, conversation, and correspondence. But will that fill the void his own daughters have left vacant?