WELCOME​

Arianna Geneson is an NYC-based creator.​​​​

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Most recently...

 

• She was thrilled to give an introductory speech at Pratt Institute's 2025 Michael Mahoney Memorial Reading, highlighting the accomplishments of esteemed speaker Fred Moten.

• She was awarded a grant from Pratt Institute's Graduate Student Engagement Fund to research the stories and writings of Holocaust victims interned in Italy. 

• She's a writer/producer of Elucidity: a #1 Apple Fiction podcast, top 1% download, & Austin Film Festival 2nd-rounder (season 2 is in the works...)​​

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Arianna runs "Secret Pete's" a Brooklyn-based poetry organization that hosts monthly open mics at Pete's Candy Store as well as readings and social events. As a playwright, her work has been performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, Writing is Live Festival, and Rites & Reason Theatre. Her poetry is published in The Burning Palace and Poetry is a Team Sport. Arianna has also written for NYC’s largest neighborhood news site, the West Side Rag.

 

She's worked as a reader for Austin Film Festival; Second Stage Theatre, providing coverage for future seasons (Broadway and Off-Broadway); Futurepoem, reading for the 2024 Other Futures Award; and privately for novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters with projects on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Peacock, and Paramount+. Arianna studied screenwriting at UCLA Extension with Koji Steven Sakai and at Primary Stages with Daniel Talbott; playwriting with Marcus Gardley, Carl Hancock Rux, and Winter Miller; and fiction at Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop with Heather Aimee O'Neill.​

 

In the past, she was a performer at Williamstown and La MaMa, with PearlDamour, in award-winning short "The Chicken" (Locarno, NYFF, AFI, Hamptons, etc.), in a one-woman show she wrote, and sang small roles with the Washington National Opera as a child. She has a bachelors from Brown University with honors in Italian Studies and Performance Studies and is an MFA Writing candidate at Pratt Institute.