Arianna Rose – Bio (www.ariannarose.net)
Arianna Rose is a professional playwright, musical theatre writer, director and dramaturg. The recipient of the MAC Song of the Year Award, Vet Rep 10-minute play award grant, the York Theatre NEO Award, and various best play/playwright awards from Theatre Odyssey, Midnight Sun Theatre, 4th Street Theatre, Town & Gown Theatre, Tree City Playhouse, Mixing It Up Productions, the Know Theatre, Studio 1 Theatre, South Baldwin Theatre and Clocktower Theatre Company. Her plays and musicals have been presented to date in thirty-five states in the U.S. and Washington D.C. International productions include England, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and United Arab Emirates. Her short plays were...
Arianna Rose – Bio (www.ariannarose.net)
Arianna Rose is a professional playwright, musical theatre writer, director and dramaturg. The recipient of the MAC Song of the Year Award, Vet Rep 10-minute play award grant, the York Theatre NEO Award, and various best play/playwright awards from Theatre Odyssey, Midnight Sun Theatre, 4th Street Theatre, Town & Gown Theatre, Tree City Playhouse, Mixing It Up Productions, the Know Theatre, Studio 1 Theatre, South Baldwin Theatre and Clocktower Theatre Company. Her plays and musicals have been presented to date in thirty-five states in the U.S. and Washington D.C. International productions include England, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and United Arab Emirates. Her short plays were selected four consecutive years for Theatre Lab at FAU’s New Works Festival competition, three consecutive years for Theatre Three’s One-Act Play Festival, three times for Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop's 10-minute play festivals, and two times for Theatre Odysseys 10-minute Play Festival, winning First Place for FAMILY BY NUMBERS. She is a two-time finalist for the Edward Kleban Lyricist and Librettist Awards, one of three finalists for the 2020 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing in the UK, and a top ten finalist for the Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest 2021. 2022 participant, Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive and William Inge Play Festival Playlab.
Arianna was one of four playwrights selected for the 2019-2021 Miami-Dade County Council of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program, moderated by Kia Corthron. Publications include Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, Applause Books “Best New Monologue Anthologies “ 2019 and 2020, and Smith & Kraus Best Stage Monologues 2023 in both the men and women's editions. She has a play and monologue being published in the upcoming Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays and Best Women Monologues Anthologies 2024.
Full-length plays:
THE RIPPLE EFFECT. Production July 2024, Rivoli Theatre, S. Fallsburg NY. Reading, Milwaukee Readers Theater Ensemble, May 2024.
THE LESSER LEYENDECKER: semi-finalist, Dramatists Guild Foundation Writers Fellowship Program 2024.
TOUCH THE MOON. Selected by HRC Showcase Theater New Works Festival and Fantasy Theatre Factory’s New Year, New Works Series for staged readings in 2022. A one-act version was produced at the 2020 Windsor Fringe Festival UK, The Know Theatre 2019, and selected for the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab 2020.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION. Production, Femuscripts Community Theatre, August 2023. Developed at the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council PLAYWRIGHT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, the Zoetic Stage Finstrom Festival and the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis/PDP. Two-time semi-finalist for the Garry Marshall Theatre Festival of New Plays in 2021 and 2022, and a finalist in the Del Shores New Play Competition.
Full-length musicals:
THE LOST GIRL. written with Ben Bonnema (recipient of Jonathan Larson & Fred Ebb Awards) , was selected for the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, Viterbo New Works Festival, NYU Steinhardt’s School of Music, the year-long CDP workshop, the 2021 Florida Festival of New Musicals, and JetFest 2022 in Michigan . Top 20 finalist for NAMT 2022.
A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION. Musical adaptation of The Equivalent of Sensation. Composer and co-lyricist, Amy Engelhardt. Director: Clayton Phillips. Will be workshopped at University of Minnesota/Duluth Theatre Department in January 2025, culminating in 4 readings, directed by Clayton Phillips. Semi-finalist for the O'Neill 2023 Music Theatre Conference and Nap Series NYC, and a finalist (for Libretto) for the Kleban Award. Finalist for the Tru/Streaming Musicals Reading Series NYC 2025, and Musical Theatre West Equity Reading Series 2024 in Long Beach CA.
SKIPPING A STONE. Musical adaptation of THE RIPPLE EFFECT. Currently in development.
Arianna is an Adjunct Theatre Professor at a South Florida Community College. M.F.A., NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; B.A. in Theatre from Bucknell University; BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop. A proud member of ASCAP, LMDA, Musicians Local 802, SEIU, New Play Exchange, The South Florida Theatre League, and the Dramatists Guild of America, where she serves as a Regional Ambassador and an Instructor with the Dramatists Guild Institute. She is the founder and moderator of the Plays on Purpose/Miami New Musicals weekly writers group. http://ariannarose.net