ARIANA BURNS is a storyteller, artist, stagehand, producer, and anthropologist. Her plays include The Three Keys of Captain Hellfire; Silver Wings on Blue; Tiny Lives, Tiny Deaths; and Patchwork. BURNS' work has been produced and/or developed by the Lewiston Civic Theatre, Theatre Outside the Belljar, Shade of Difference, and the University of Idaho as well as independently in Honolulu, HI & Potsdam, NY.

Awards include: second place, David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival - ATHE for The Three Keys of Captain Hellfire; a reading at the Northwest Drama Conference of A Stick in the Spoke; a prize & production of Patchwork by the Northwest Playwrights Guild.

She has worked for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Mount Baker Theatre, Shade of Difference, the Dread Admiral’s Sunshine Factory, Laughing Horse Summer Theatre, the University of Idaho's Conferences and Events, and the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.

Burns is on the board of directors for the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre & a member of the National Council on Public History. She has a B.F.A. in technical theatre & an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Idaho. She has studied screenwriting under Colin Higgins and playwriting under Micki Panttaja & David M. Cohen.