Arianna Rose

Arianna Rose is an award-winning playwright and musical theatre writer whose works have been produced nationally and internationally in twenty-seven states and Canada, England, Australia, Israel, Scotland, Germany and Thailand. Participant in the 2022 Kennedy Center Playwright Intensive and William Inge Theatre Festival Playlab. Arianna was one of four playwrights, and the only woman, selected for the Miami-Dade Council of Cultural Affairs 2019-2021 PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM facilitated by playwright Kia Corthron. Since 2020, Arianna has served as Dramatists Guild Ambassador for the South Florida Region. She won the 2012 MAC Award for Song of the Year for “He’s On His Way” with composer Robby Stamper. Her one-act play FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been awarded Best Play in two different one-act play festivals and had it’s production world premiere at Theatre Three; it's been produced all over the country and is published in two Best Short Play Anthologies. A BIG OCEAN won the Artistic Merit Award in the Know Theatre’s Artists & Playwrights Festival. She was a 2019-2020 lyricist finalist for the Kleban Award for Musical Theatre. Arianna is a recipient of NYC’s York Theatre NEO (New Emerging Outstanding Writer). She is the founder and moderator of the writers group Plays on Purpose in South Florida.
Full-length plays: TOUCH THE MOON (selected for a staged reading in the New Year, New Works Play Festival at the Sandrell Rivers Theater in Miami, FL in March 2020, HRC Showcase Theatre in Hudson, NY; Walking Shadow Readers Theatre in Washington DC, and a podcast with Deans Productions PREMIERE THE PLAY in Los Angeles. It was a finalist for the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival.
Her full-length play THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION, about the Cone Sisters and Gertrude Stein, has had extensive development, including being one of five plays selected nationwide for the Tony Finstrom New Works Festival, the By Scratch Festival in Miami FL; Just Write Lakeland, Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival in Toronto, and WriteHer New Play Festival in Los Angeles. Her one-act play MAKE MULCH FROM IT was selected for FIGHT LIKE A GIRL 2 in Manchester England; Drunken Owl Theatre Company in Seattle, Viterbo New Works Festival in Wisconsin, and Theatre Lab@FAU in Boca Raton.
Full-length musicals: THE LOST GIRL with collaborator Ben Bonnema (Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival; Viterbo New Works Festival; 2021 Florida Festival of New Musicals, JetFest, Michigan; New Works Festival Hamburg, Germany, NYU Steinhardt School of Music, Top 20 Finalists, NAMT 2022. Top finalist for Imagen residency at MSU and Syracuse U's New Work Initiative); GUTTER BALLS, commissioned by Bucknell University Dept. of Theatre and Dance; and A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION, with collaborator Amy Engelhardt and attached director Clayton Phillips. . One-act musicals: GET THAT MOUSE with Shelly Gartner (Microtheater Miami); RSVP with Donna Warfield and Aden Kent Ramsey (Atlanta Theatre-to-Go Spring 2020 tour); GONE TO THE DOGS (with Chandra McClelland); 0% CHANCE OF VISIBILITY (with Marj O’Neill-Butler).
Productions of short-form plays and musicals include: DREAM TEEN (with Robby Stamper), at the York Theatre’s 4@15: New Musicals; GET THAT MOUSE at Microtheater Miami (composer Shelly Gartner), DOUBLE TROUBLE at the VCT New Play Festival, Orlando FL; FAMILY BY NUMBERS (Lowell Arts Play Festival, Lowell MI; Ten Minute Play Festival, Connecticut Western State University, Danbury CT; Artists’ Exchange One-Act Play Festival, Cranston RI; Gulfport Players New Play Festival, Gulfport FL; Theatre Three One Act Play Festival, Port Jefferson, NY; Bismarck New Play Festival, Bismarck, ND; Theatre Odyssey 10-minute Play Festival, Sarasota FL, and many other venues across the country; THE BEAT GOES ON (Theatre Three, Port Jefferson, NY); MAKE MULCH FROM IT (FIGHT LIKE A GIRL 2, Manchester England), ; HOW THE DEED IS DONE (About Love Festival, Vancouver B.C.); THE SANITY CLAUSET (OnStage Atlanta’s Merry Little Holiday Shorts Festival, Atlanta, GA); A DEEP OCEAN (Winner, Artistic Merit Award, KNOW THEATRE’s Artists and Playwrights Festival, Binghamton, NY); WATER MUSIC (Sundog Theatre Company’s SCENES FROM THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY 2020); THE RIPPLE EFFECT (Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill COMIC SHORTS FESTIVAL, Albuquerque NM), JOY RIDE.
Workshops: THE LOST GIRL, (with Ben Bonnema), CDP (Collaborative Development Productions, Rob Heller & Brandon Anderson) at Frederick Loewe Theatre, NYC and THE SPELL (with Matthew Gregory), and JOSIE & THE ROCKAWAY TUFFS, commissioned by the Rockaway Artists Alliance in Rockaway, NY.
Stand-alone song Highlights: The Disney Company Industrials, NY Lincoln Center’s BROADWAY’S FUTURE SONGBOOK SERIES, DUST OFF YOUR DREAMS, FUNNY BUSINESS (The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, NY) and the CONCERT FOR THE CITY GREENS, where the Bonnema-Rose song “It’s Just My Park” was one of 8 finalists in their song contest.
Publications: Smith & Krause Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2021, Theatre Odyssey's Ten Minute Play Festival Volume 4. 100 Best Monologues from New Plays 2020 – MEN; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Oldest Son Monologue from FAMILY BY NUMBERS; and 100 Best Monologues from New Plays 2019 – WOMEN; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Susan’s Monologue from MAKE MULCH FROM IT.
Arianna is a recipient of the Paulette Goddard Theatre Scholarship and a Theatre Professor at Broward College in South Florida. Adjunct Professor of the Year, 2022-2023. She is also a professional Dramaturg and member of LMDA. MFA: NYU Tisch Musical Theatre Writing; B.A.: Bucknell University, Theatre. Arianna studied libretto writing with David Spencer and is a BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop alumna. Proud member of Musicians Local 802, ASCAP, LMDA, The South Florida Theatre League, New Play Exchange, the Playwright Center, and The Dramatists Guild. www.ariannarose.net