AriDy Nox

AriDy Nox

AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller and social activist with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under her/their belt including the sci-fi operetta Project Tiresias (2018), the ancestral reckoning play A Walless Church (2019), the afrofuturist ecopocalypse musical Metropolis (2019), and many others. AriDy creates out of the vehement belief that creating a future in which...
AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller and social activist with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under her/their belt including the sci-fi operetta Project Tiresias (2018), the ancestral reckoning play A Walless Church (2019), the afrofuturist ecopocalypse musical Metropolis (2019), and many others. AriDy creates out of the vehement belief that creating a future in which marginalized peoples are free requires a radical imagination. Their tales are offerings intended to function as small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping, created by and for black femmes. As a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts at NYU and a beneficiary of the Emerging Writer’s Group at the Public Theatre, she has been inordinately privileged to share the workings of her imagination among a vast array of inspiring and supportive artists of various radical backgrounds throughout the city.

Plays

  • A Walless Church
    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.