About

Ariella Stoian is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter and interactive storyteller creating playful, genre-blended work between science and wild wonder. 

 

Spanning speculative fiction and queer magic realism, their writing often explores ecological entanglement and more-than-human kinship, grounding the fantastical in human hearts.

 

Recognised for a lyrical style that fuses poetic language with character-driven storytelling, Ariella’s work has been staged at VAULT, The Glitch, Theatre Deli, Assembly Roxy, The Space and Omnibus Theatre.

 

They were longlisted for the BBC Writersroom Popcorn Writing Award (HIVE, 2023) and the Paines Plough Women’s Playwriting Prize (2023) and shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award (To be a bat, 2023). 

 

Their feature screenplay Life as a Mesoplankton was a finalist in the 2025 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. 

 

Ariella trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.