Ariel Stess is a playwright and director originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a New Dramatists resident playwright (class of 2028), an affiliated artist of The Playwrights’ Center, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Her work has been produced and/or developed at Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Mabou Mines, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, DePaul University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and The Playwrights’ Center. Productions include (upcoming) Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miraånda (produced with artist support from New Georges’ In Collaboration program, directed by Meghan Finn, NYC, *a non-professional production), The World My Mama Raised (produced by Clubbed Thumb, directed by Kip Fagan, NYC), Heartbreak (produced by The Bushwick Starr, co-produced by New Georges; directed by Ariel, Brooklyn), which was a Time Out New York Critics’ Pick, and I’m Pretty Fucked Up (produced by Clubbed Thumb, directed by Kip Fagan, NYC), which received Five Stars in Time Out New York.
Ariel Stess
Stress has been a resident at Yaddo Artists' Colony, SPACE on Ryder Farm with Playwrights Horizons, and Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program. She was a New Georges Audrey Resident and Core Writer of the Playwrights’ Center. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb. Ariel received her BA from Bard College where she studied under JoAnne Akalaitis and Chiori Miyagawa and her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College where she studied under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.
