Arianna Rose

Arianna Rose is an award-winning playwright, musical theatre writer, director, dramaturg and educator. Her plays and musicals have been presented in thirty-seven states, Washington D.C., and internationally in England, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and UAE. Her short plays and monologues are published by Applause Books, Smith & Kraus, Ghostlight Publications, and Theatre Odyssey Publications. Recipient of the MAC Song of the Year Award, Veterans Repertory Theatre Third Place Short Play Award, the York Theatre NEO Award, and various best play/playwright awards from Theatre Odyssey, Drury University, Lumen Playwriting Competition, Tree City Playhouse, 4th Street Theatre, Midnight Sun Theatre, Town & Gown Theatre, Mixing It Up Productions, the Know Theatre, Studio 1 Theatre, South Baldwin Theatre and Clocktower Theatre Company. She was selected for the 2022 Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive and William Inge Theatre Festival Playlab. Arianna was one of four playwrights chosen for the 2019-2021 Miami-Dade County Council of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program, moderated by Kia Corthron. She is a two-time finalist for the Edward Kleban Lyric & Libretto Writing Award and one of three finalists for the 2020 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing in the UK.

Edge Media Network lauded her play Family By Numbers, calling it “One of the best plays” with a “powerfully haunting conclusion.” The world premiere was at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY in April 2019 with more than 33 productions since then across the country, the Philippines and Canada. It’s been selected twice for Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program and published in two separate best play anthologies.

Full-length plays: Touch the Moon (workshop production, Cincinnati Lab Theatre); The Equivalent of Sensation(Production, Femuscripts Community Theatre, Miami, FL); The Ripple Effect (Production, Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, S. Fallsburg, NY); The Lesser Leyendecker (Playwrights Thriving Reading Series - online; Athena Projects Read & Rant, Denver CO). In development: Jonna/Jack, A Change of Heart.

Full-length musicals: The Lost Girl, written with Ben Bonnema. Reading, Florida Festival of New Musicals, Viterbo New Works Festival (WI). Workshops: CDP (NYU), Buck Hill Skytop Musical Festival. Top 20 finalist NAMT 2022. A Collectible Sensation, a musical adaptation of The Equivalent of Sensation with Amy Engelhardt. Workshop, University of Minnesota/Duluth January 2025; Finalist, Kleban Award 2024 (Libretto). Semi-finalist for the 2023 Eugene O’Neill NMTC and NapSeries NYC 2023. The Leyendecker Look, a musical adaptation of The Lesser Leyendecker with Thomas Jacobsen. Touch the Moon, a musical adaptation of Touch the Moon with Thomas Jacobsen. In development. Skipping a Stone, a musical adaptation of The Ripple Effect. In development. Gutter Balls. Workshop production, Bucknell University.

45+ Short-form and One-Act plays and musicals. A comprehensive list is available on my website: www.ariannarose.net

Playwriting Instructor. Professional Dramaturg. Adjunct Theatre Professor: Lynn University, Broward College. M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; B.A. Theatre, Bucknell University; BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop. Memberships: ASCAP, Musicians Local 802, New Play Exchange, Playwrights Center, LMDA, Maestra, South Florida Theatre League, Dramatists Guild of America. Founder/moderator of Plays on Purpose weekly writers group (now in its seventh year).