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In November 2023 Ariella presented a WIP of their most recent interactive show

‘A Quest for Rest’, incorporating game design and collective roleplay to model an Energy Limiting Condition, the choice to rest and mutual care of a querulous umbrella plant named Sven. Transforming an imagined home into a magical realist swamp to explore illness, crip-time, translated experience and everyday joys for Theatre Deli's Social Model...& More Festival as well as voidspace live festival 2024, with a previous extract performance at Summerhall Surgeries and an R&D at the Young Vic.

 

Their interactive, immersive story 'You wake up/octopus' is a queered, playful, branching possibility show about loss, radical empathy and chosen self, where participants collaborate as one octopus (many tentacles) to build a vessel and journey to space/beyond, seeking someone who they've lost and can't quite remember. Developed with Mushmoss Collective in secondary schools for Theatre Deli's SHIFT+SPACE Program 2023. Ariella also assisted on and creatively contributed to immersive, interactive show 'Free WILL' (Croydonites Festival, Stanley Arts 2022) with award winning company Parabolic Theatre. They were also a member of the 2023 Without Walls Discover Program cohort in outdoor arts, receiving mentorship through GDIF and Joyce Lee, Artistic Director of Mind the Gap.

 

Last year Ariella was long listed for the BBC Writersroom Popcorn Writing Award 2023 for their play ‘HIVE’ (4* The Scotsman, originally commissioned by The Space, Isle of Dogs). Additionally, their play ‘To be a bat’ was shortlisted for Theatre503’s 2023 International Playwriting Award and long listed for the 2023 Paines Plough Women’s Playwriting Award.

 

Ariella's play 'The dusk before' was long listed for Relish Theatre's 2022 Regeneration Award. Their screenplay 'Life as a mesoplankton' reached the top 15% of the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship Awards in Screenwriting for the Academy Awards and is currently in redrafts.

 

Ariella trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where they’ve also worked as a Visiting Practitioner, developing new writing as a director and dramaturg. Ariella is one of the founding members of Mushmoss Collective alongside longstanding collaborators Susie MacDonald and Zygmund de Somogyi. creating multi-disciplinary, queered theatre between storytelling, composition and immersive play. Set in imagined worlds to consider connection and new futures, their work is often framed by installational, evolving, eclectic, queer archive 'The Memory Tree'. They are particularly interested in exploring non-human perspectives and presented sonic fable 'The Space Crow and the Sun' at Bold Mellon's Alt-B program at the Bush Theatre.

 

Ariella has presented work at VAULT festival (HIVE - The Glitch, APOV 2023) Southwark Playhouse (The dusk before - R&D and showcase, 2022), Omnibus Theatre (The dusk before - Engine Room Program, 2022) Assembly Roxy (HIVE, 2023), Theatre Deli (A Quest for Rest, 2023,  You wake up/octopus - SHIFT+SPACE 2022), Theatre503 (dir. RWR Made by God, Saving Dragons 2025), The Space (HIVE (WIP), You wake up/octopus), Camden People's Theatre (You wake up/Octopus - SPRINT Festival), Summerhall (A Quest for Rest, Summerhall Surgeries), 

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Ariella has written and produced site-specific-and-responsive work, including in a cemetery, beside an ocean pool, in museums, libraries, offices, historic trust sites and more. They've facilitated the development of poetry and spoken word programs with Australian companies Word Travels, Red Room Poetry and the Sydney Writers' Festival. They've worked for theatres, festivals, in performing arts publishing, supported co-created arts projects with Australian company Milk Crate Theatre and facilitated storytelling with young people. 

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Alongside writing and redrafts, they're currently studying indie game design, reading Solarpunk books and have recently joined a choir.