ARIANNA'S LIFE

 

Arianna grew up in the suburbs outside Washington, D. C., dancing ballet and performing at the local children’s community theater. During her childhood, Arianna attained a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and played the French horn. As a teen, she split her time between interning at the Chemistry Division of the US Naval Research laboratory and singing with the Washington National Opera. She graduated at the top of her class from the number one ranked high school in the US—Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

 

Upon graduation, Arianna traded in her varsity mathlete jacket to complete an internship in the production office of the Washington National Opera and a semester studying language and voice in Florence, Italy. Arianna went on to concentrate in Italian and Performance Studies at Brown University, where she was a member of the theatre production board Sock & Buskin, a course assistant in the Italian and Theatre departments, and first studied playwriting. During that time, Arianna also spent several months living in Rome and Sicily. She was a founding member of Brown University's Performance Philosophy research group.

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After graduation, Arianna studied acting with Adolf Shapiro from the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) for a summer. She then moved to New York, NY, where she studied acting with Scott Freeman, Reed Birney, Andrew Dolan, Tara Giordao, and Bill Timoney. Her acting career included performing at Williamstown, La MaMa, the Coney Island Sideshow, in the short film The Chicken (Locarno, NYFF, AFI, Hamptons, etc), and as a featured background actor in season five of Orange is the New Black (most recognizably in episode seven: "Full Bush, Half Snickers"). Additionally, she performed and assistant directed with PearlDamour, assistant stage managed for Young Jean Lee, completed multiple production and literary internships, and wrote and starred in a one-woman show.

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She defected to writing in 2020, though she has written since she was a child (and is an English major at heart). Arianna has taught kickboxing, plays dungeons and dragons, and loves attending the symphony alone. She is a frequent singer of jazz standards at open mics and was awarded "World's Best Cat Mom Ever" by her catsons Figaro, Mad Max, and "Riggy"toni.