THE RIPPLE EFFECT (50-minute version) was the winner of Midnight Sun Theatre’s Annual Serial Bowl competition 2024 in Anchorage, Alaska. The first round was the ten-minute play; voted on to the next round, expanded to 20-minutes, and voted on to the final round, 50-minute version, where it received the most votes. This three-hander has since been expanded to a full 75-page comedy.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT (10-minute version) will be produced by Sock & Buskin Theatre Company July 26-27, 2024 in Bellefonte, PA, as part of their “Beginnings” Showcase Festival.
JONNA/JACK has been selected by Tiger’s Heart Players, Bronx NY, for an online zoom reading May 12, 2024.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for the Readers Theatre One-Act Showcase, Village Players of Hatboro PA, June 8, 2024.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT (full-length version) has been selected for the Spirit Arts Festival 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as part of their Readers Theatre. Directed by Elizabeth Havican, the reading is on May 18 2024 at Capitol Library. Produced by Solar Wind Media Group.
The one-act play DO OVER has been selected by Witwerks Theatre Company in Brighton, UK, for an August 2024 production.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS will be performed by Spruce Grove Composite High School drama department at the Zone 2 West Provincial Drama Festival in Westbrook, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, April 18 2024. This festival determines who will go on to the provincial wide drama festival.
MiniMansions Productions (in NYC) will include A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM in their "She’s, Theys, and Plays" 10-minute play festival, directed by Annaleise Loxton. The performance will be at The Producer's Club, 358 W 44th St., New York, NY, June 1st at 6 pm.
SPRUCE GROVE COMPOSITE HIGH SCHOOL in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada, is presenting FAMILY BY NUMBERS Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Theatre Arts Productions in West Palm Beach FL will produce THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS MONDEGREEN-ER as part of their TAP SHORTS Spring 2024.
Cannon Theatre in Devens, MA, will produce both FAMILY BY NUMBERS and THE BEAT GOES ON in their ten-minute play festival June 14-16 2024.
The ten-minute drama WATER MUSIC will be published in the Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays 2024; and Meredith's monologue from the same play will be published in their Best Women's Monologues 2024. Both books, as well as the Male Monologue book, will be available for purchase around December 2024.
TOUCH THE MOON (full-length play) was a finalist for the 2024 Live Arts Virginia Waterworks Festival, out of 600 submissions.
Two Songs from A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION will be featured in True Mirage Theater’s RESONATION 2024, at Main Street Playhouse in Hialeah Florida March 15-16 2024. More information here:
JONNA/JACK was awarded second place and a cash prize in the Celtic Calling/Tipjar Theatre’s Reading Series in Charleston, WV, on March 3 2024.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT (20-minute version) received the top number of votes in the SERIAL BOWL FESTIVAL, Round Two, Midnight Sun Theatre, Anchorage AK March 1-2. It will now be expanded to a 45- minute play for the final competition round on May 3-4, 2024.
IT’S ELEMENTAL has been selected for the staged reading series for Earth Day Expo by Break a Leg Productions in NY NY April 18-19, 2024.
Niles North High School in Skokie, IL, will present FAMILY BY NUMBERS as part of their One-Act Play Festival, April 26-27, 2024.
Thrilled to announce that I'll be teaching a 10-week workshop in Writing the Short-Form Play for the Dramatists Guild Institute beginning March 14th. This is a fully online course, meeting Thursdays 1-4 pm EST, with a maximum enrollment of 10 people. You do NOT have to be a member of the Dramatists Guild to take any of their courses. You can read testimonials to my dramaturgical skills on my website: https://ariannarose.net/dramaturg-for-hire
JONNA/JACK will be performed in Tipjar Readers Theatre as part of the Celtic Calling Festival, March 3 2024 in Charleston, WV. There will also be a Facebook live, at 4:00 pm that date: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=celtic%20calling
GOING HOME will be produced by Appalachian State University in Boone, N. Carolina, as part of their Theatre Department’s Short Play Festival, May 4-5 2024. Directed by Janis Noreen.
SafeSpace Association, a government theatre program in Toledo City, Cebu, Philippines will be utilizing FAMILY BY NUMBERS for their upcoming 2024 workshops in directing, acting, and production management.
THE DATING POOL (one-act version) has been selected by Dorset Players in Vermont for their One-Acts Festival, March 1-3, 2024.
THE DATING POOL (10-minute version) has been selected for Theatre Southwest’s Readers Theatre, January 21, 2024 in Houston, TX.
A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION was one of 26 finalists (out of 364 submissions) for the Kleban Prize for Librettists sponsored by the New Dramatists Program, NYC.
THE DATING POOL (10-minute version) will have a staged reading as part of Rockford New Words 2024 in Rockford IL, February 2-4, 2004. One of ten plays chosen from 143 submissions.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION was nominated as Best New Play 2023 for the Broadway World Miami Metro Awards.
THE LESSER LEYENDECKER, a new play in development about the Leyendecker Brothers, was a semi-finalist for the Dramatists Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellowship Program 2023, out of 600 submissions.
JONNA/JACK will be produced by the Pineapple Playhouse in Ft. Pierce, FL, as part of their One-Act Play Festival, March 16, 2024. 2 pm performance.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT was voted on to Round 2 March 1-2, 2024, with an expanded script, for Midnight Sun Theatre’s SERIAL BOWL 2024 in Anchorage, Alaska.
THE LOST GIRL (with collaborator Ben Bonnema) was one of 5 finalists for the Circle in the Square Theatre School musical theatre residency, NYC.
JOY RIDE has been selected for the Short & Sweet Festival, Dubai UAE, February 10-11, 2024, at the Junction Theatre Dubai, Al Serkal Avenue. https://shortandsweet.org/festivals/shortsweet-dubai-2024
THE RIPPLE EFFECT was selected from 200 submissions for “Little Love Stories”, produced by Livonia Community Theatre, Livonia, MI, in February 2024.
The one-act plays THE RIPPLE EFFECT and DO OVER have been selected by Midnight Sun Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska, for their Serial Bowl Series in 2024.
The monologue Protege, about a ventriloquist-in-training and his first crush, performed by Jack G. Hyman, will be broadcast on Writers Block Radio Hour in Scotland November 11-12 on Radio Six International www.radiosix.com
FAMILY BY NUMBERS will be produced at University of Alberta, Canada, Camrose, for 7 performances, November 16-18 and November 22-25th. This is the first international production of this play, following 20 different productions in the United States.
The new Smith & Kraus Stage Monologue books for 2023 are available! Two monologues from TOUCH THE MOON (Dirk and Stefan) are in the men’s book, and one monologue from the same play (Emily) in the women’s edition.
On Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 6 p.m., The Open Eye Theater will perform "WATER MUSIC," as part of their Playtime series on WIOX Community Radio in the Catskills, NY.
The Playtime performances will air over WiOX Community Radio in the Catskills at 91.3 FM, and stream everywhere at wioxradio.org.
Arianna Rose joins the faculty of the Dramatists Guild Institute with Writing the Short-form Play.
A one-day workshop is being offered on December 9th from 12-6 pm EST (with a break 2:30 -3:15 pm) where there will be an opportunity to have your play read and receive feedback. A more in-depth ten-week course taught by Ms. Rose begins in March 2024.
"More and more theatres are adding festivals featuring one-minute, five-minute and ten-minute plays to their seasons. Join instructor Arianna Rose for a one-day workshop that will combine lecture, a panel discussion with well-known ten-minute playwrights Marj O'Neill-Butler, Mark Harvey Levine, and John Mabey, writing prompts, and sharing of work in a lively, fast-paced forum.
Topics covered during the workshop may include how to get started, rewriting, submissions, joining a writers group, giving and receiving feedback, and more. Participants will also be given the opportunity to share a short-form play in a Google Drive, allowing everyone in the workshop to read it, and then random participants will be called on to share their work.
After this workshop, you will feel more empowered to write and submit your short-form plays and also have the language necessary to give and receive useful feedback."
THE DATING POOL has been selected for production at Hamilton College, Clinton NY, December 1-2 2023. Directed and designed by Nicole Tichner.
The monologue BOOM has been selected for an acting class project at Emory & Henry College, Emory Virginia. Members of New Play Exchange can read it here.
THE DATING POOL has been selected for FIGHT LIKE A GIRL 4, November 21-24, 2023, at the Kings Arms Theatre in Salsford, Manchester England. This is a benefit for Cancer Research UK. This is the second time I’ve had work in this festival - the first time was MAKE MULCH FROM IT in 2019 for FIGHT LIKE A GIRL 2. Click here for tickets.
THE DATING POOL will have its London England debut September 5-9 2023 as part of Kibo Production’s REBOOT FESTIVAL 3 at Barons Court Theatre in London. Directed by Hannah Gooden. One of 18 plays selected from 400 submissions.
THE BEAT GOES ON will be produced as part of the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop’s 10-minute Play Festival September 8 - 10th, 2023, at the Rivoli Theatre in S. Fallsburg, NY. SCDW also produced THE RIPPLE EFFECT in 2021.
THE DATING POOL is one of 36 plays on the shortlist (from 400 submissions) for Kibo Productions REBOOT FESTIVAL in London England.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS won the JUDGES CHOICE AWARD at the Town & Gown Theatre D’Jour Troupe’s Short Play Festival, held in Stillwater Oklahoma, August 12-13, 2023.
Femuscripts Inc. will be presenting THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION in Miami Florida September 9-10, 2023, and in Boca Raton September 16-17, directed by Carey Brianna Hart.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION has been selected as one of three plays for THE DEPOT’s inaugural Winter Reading Series. Located in Connecticut, this new series will be a zoom reading on January 7, 2024.
WATER MUSIC will be produced by Open Eye Theatre, Margaretville NY, as part of their August 2023 SUMMER SHORTCUTS XIII. Selected from 355 submissions.
The Equivalent of Sensation was a finalist for the Toronto Fireworks Festival produced by Alumnae Theatre.
Town & Gown Theatre’s Troupe d’Jour will present FAMILY BY NUMBERS as part of their Stillwater Short Play Festival August 12-13, 2023 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, directed by Deborah Sutton. Selected from 214 submissions.
The Studio Players in Lexington, Kentucky, will present THE BEAT GOES ON as part of their 10-minute play Festival July 27-30 2023. One of 7 plays chosen out of 300 submissions.
GOING HOME will have its first production July 8-9 as part of the Miami 1 Acts Festival.
The full-length musical A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION, written with Amy Engelhardt, is currently a semi-finalist (out of 550 submissions) for Normal Ave NAPSERIES 2023, a workshop/reading in NYC in October 2023. For more information: https://www.normalave.org/copy-of-napseries-2020
The full-length play TOUCH THE MOON was a top ten finalist for the 2021 Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award sponsored by the University of Charleston Dept. of Theatre & Dance.
The full-length play TOUCH THE MOON was one of 4 finalists (out of 308 submissions) for a 2023-2024 production by Black Swamp Players, Bowling Green, Ohio .
FAMILY BY NUMBERS, after being performed in a class project by the Oregon Thespians of McKay High School, has been selected to represent Oregon in the International Thespian Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, June 19-23, 2023.
The one-act play THE DATING POOL, directed by Sharon Garry, will be produced by Chatham Community Players as part of their Jersey Voices 2023 Festival in July & August, 2023 in Chatham, NJ.
Chatham Players One-Act Festival
The musical THE LOST GIRL, co-written with Ben Bonnema, was one of three finalists for the Florida State University New Musicals Initiative 2023.
The musical A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION, co-written with Amy Engelhardt, was a 2023 semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference.
SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM will have four performances in this staged reading series at Veterans Repertory Theatre in upstate NY July 2023. Info below.
Death Before Dress Rehearsal: VetRep’s 10-Minute Play Reading Festival!
Directed by Christopher Paul Meyer and Davis Cowart
Saturday, July 08, 2023 at 7pm
Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 7pm
Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 7pm
Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7pm
VetRep is thrilled to present seven veteran-authored 10-minute plays each Saturday night during July. Denis Meadows’ poignantly thrilling A BRUSH AGAINST THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE UNIVERSE, Arianna Rose’s funny SEX, LIES & STRYOFOAM, Richard Fouts’ madcap comedy FAST-MOVING CONSUMER GOODS, Jack Rushton’s provocative GEORGE’S RADIO, Terry Glaser’s Greek myth-turned-film noir THE BIG DARK, Donald Ranard’s thoughtful ELBOW.APPLE.CARPET.SADDLE.BUBBLE, and VetRep Artist-in-Residence Daniel Guyton’s absurdist SERVICE FOR NONE.
Veterans Repertory Theatre interviewed me for their podcast Savage Wonder about plays, playwriting, and my life in the arts:
The reviews are in for THE DATING POOL at Theatre Three’s 2023 One-Act Festival:
Smithtown Matters
TBR Media
https://tbrnewsmedia.com/theatre-threes-festival-of-one-act-plays-does-not-disappoint/
“IF ONE IS GOOD”, a song from the musical A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION by Amy Engelhardt and Arianna Rose, will have its debut at 54 Below on March 4 2023 as part of the WOMEN OF THE WINGS PART V series.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS was selected for the One-Act Play Festival by Bergen County Academies in Hackensack NJ, June 1-3 2023.
An article in Broadway World about the Theatre Three One-Act Play Festival and my play THE DATING POOL: https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Theatre-Three-to-Present-24TH-ANNUAL-FESTIVAL-OF-ONE-ACT-PLAYS-Beginning-in-February-20230122
An article was published in chroniclenewspaper.com about SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM winning Third Place in the annual Veterans Repertory Theatre playwriting contest: https://www.chroniclenewspaper.com/home/veterans-repertory-theater-announces-second-playwriting-competition-grant-recipients-IH2339684
THE DATING POOL has been selected from over 750 submissions for the 24th Annual One-Act Play Festival produced by Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY. This marks the third consecutive festival at Theatre Three where I’ve premiered a new play. Performances in February-March 2023. https://www.theatrethree.com/one-act.html
Just Write! Lakeland (FL) has selected THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION for an online reading on Monday February 27th at 7 pm EST.
The one-act play DO OVER has been selected by The Bunbury Players in upstate New York for their One-Act Play Festival in March 2023.
SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM has won the third place prize (and a grant of $500) from Veterans Repertory Theatre in New York in their short play category. (out of 200 submissions)
THE LOST GIRL has been accepted into the Musical Theatre Educator’s Alliance New Works Collaboration Catalog (NWCC) where it will be accessible to secondary education, higher education, and professional affiliates.
A New Musical by Ben Bonnema & Arianna Rose
The short play I LOVE A PARADE has been selected by Tempest Productions/Central PA Dance and Theatre Fest to be part of their Zoom reading series in 2023.
The monologue “8 Aunt Marys” has been selected for an acting class assignment by Millersville University in PA. You can read it on New Play Exchange if you are member: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2026101/8-aunt-marys-1-minute-monologue-teen-girl
There is an article about me and my work on ShoutOut Miami: Here's the link:
https://shoutoutmiami.com/meet-arianna-rose-theatre-writer-educator/
GOING HOME will have an online reading with The Barrow Group NYC as part of their First Friday Series on November 4 2022.
University of Central Missouri will be producing DO OVER as part of a student director class project in Spring 2023.
DOUBLE TROUBLE has been selected for an Acting 1 course assignment at Millersville University, PA.
Family by Numbers has been selected for the inaugural New Play Reading Festival in Connecticut:
Join us for Legacy Theatre’s First Annual Play Reading Festival September 18th! Over 100 new plays were submitted, and the top ten short and full-length plays were selected to be read at the Festival by Legacy’s Resident Acting Ensemble. Join us for two full days of new works by playwrights from all over the nation, culminating in an Awards ceremony for the ten finalists. Info and reservations to this free event are here: https://www.legacytheatrect.org/2022-legacy-play-reading-festival
LEAVING A HOLE has been selected for the Original Monologue Contest produced by Talking Horse Productions, Columbus MO. A recording of the monologue will be posted to their facebook page and website in September 2022. Selected from over 150 submissions.
July 30th 2022, a staged reading of TOUCH THE MOON in New Lebanon, NY.
Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga will produce WATER MUSIC as part of their podcast LIGHTS UP Season 3, dropping October 3rd. This will include a one-hour interview with me as well as the play.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/water-music-by-arianna-rose/id1530836392?i=1000581457161
Memoriam Development in Elgin Illinois will produce I LOVE A PARADE in their Nightshade Horror Play Festival, September 30 - October 8 2022. One of 10 plays selected from 160 submissions.
The Actors Studio of Newburyport MA (TASN) has selected THE RIPPLE EFFECT for it’s 5th Annual SPF and Celebration of Shorts Festival, for three performances in October 2022.
VS Theatre Company in Los Angeles will host an online reading of THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION in July 2022. Directed by Victoria A. Hoffman.
The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis will host an online reading of The Equivalent of Sensation after a 3 day workshop in July 2022. This is in conjunction with the Playwright Development Program in Miami, Florida.
Arianna Rose has been selected for the 2022 Kennedy Center Summer Playwrighting Intensive, an eight day program led by Gary Garrison and TJ Young.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS will be produced in Hutchinson, KS in July 2022 as part of the Prison Theatre Project between Bethel College and Hutchinson Correctional Facility.
BLAME IT ON BARBIE will be produced by CenterStage Theatreworks, Allen Texas, as part of their New Works Festival June 2022.
THE LOST GIRL with collaborator Ben Bonnema was one of twenty finalists (out of 480 submissions) for NAMT (National Association of Musical Theatre) 2022.
For the third year in the row, a play by Arianna Rose has made the semi-finalist list of the New Works Festival of the Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. It now moves to the next round.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT will be produced as a Facebook Live event as part of Tiny_Theatre’s #tiny_Sassy_Summer_Shorts Series. The air date is Wednesday August 3rd.
THE CLEITAGORA TEST (an earlier draft of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM) will be produced by the Gemco Players Community Teatre Take Ten Festival in Victoria Australia May 20-22, 2022. Postponed from 2020.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM will be produced by Open Space Arts, Reisterstown MD as part of their 2022 Summer Playwrights Festival on August 5-7 and August 12-14, 2022. Details on their website: https://www.osarts.org/
The monologue BOOM, recorded by Arianna Rose, will be featured in the Empty Room Salon online radio anthology of Empty Room Theatre in May 2022.
DO OVER (the 20-minute version) has been selected for the Crafton Hills College New Works Festival 2022, in Yucaipa, CA, summer of 2022.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION was named one of three finalists in the 2021 Del Shores Foundation playwriting competition.
JOY RIDE has been selected for the Incubator New Works Festival in Grand Forks, ND, by Empire Theatre Company. Performances are March 31-April 3, 2022 at the Empire Arts Center.
JOY RIDE has been selected for a digital production with Rainy Day Artistic Collective, Seattle WA, as part of their Halfway Historical One-Act Play Festival in March 2022.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS and SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM will be published by Theatre Odyssey (Sarasota FL) in their 10-minute play anthology of the winning plays from their play festivals 2018-2021.
SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM was a semi-finalist in MadLab Roulette’s Short Play Festival.
JOY RIDE will be produced by Curtain Call Playhouse as part of their Short Play Festival in April in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has made the shortlist for the SHORT& SWEET PLAY FESTIVAL Dubai.
ALL THAT PEZ has been selected for the 2021 Urban Waves Short Play Festival @ Open Hydrant Theater Company in The Bronx, NY. Festival dates October 1-3, 2021.
DOUBLE TROUBLE will be produced online by the Bangkok Community Theatre, Thailand, as part of their shorts festival in Fall 2021.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION was a semi-finalist for the 2021 New Works Festival produced by the Garry Marshall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
THE LOST GIRL (with collaborator Ben Bonnema) had three concert readings as part of the Florida Festival of New Musicals, June 24-26, 2021. Winter Park Playhouse, Winter Park, FL.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION is one of five winners for the inaugural Tony Finstrom New Works Festival, produced by Zoetic Stage, Miami Florida.
WATER MUSIC has been selected for the "LADIES BRIEFS" short play festival this fall, produced by the Valley Players in Napa, CA.
SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM has been selected for Theatre Odyssey’s 2021 10-Minute Play Festival (this year being presented as podcasts). This marks the second play by Ms. Rose selected by Theatre Odyssey for their festivals; the first one being FAMILY BY NUMBERS which one their first prize in 2019).
TOUCH THE MOON has been selected by Dean Productions Theatre Company in Los Angeles for their podcast series “PREMIERE THE PLAY”.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT has been selected by the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop in S. Fallview, NY, for their May 2021 ten-minute play festival.
BLAME IT ON BARBIE has been selected by Break A Leg Productions in NYC for their Hope Springs Eternal Series of online plays.
DOUBLE TROUBLE will be part of the 2021 online TAPSHORTS FESTIVAL by Theatre Arts Productions in Palm Beach County, Florida.
WATER MUSIC has been selected for Scriptwriters & Co. March 2021 Scratch Night. This will be an online reading and workshop in Bath, UK.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS is one of five plays selected by Jakespeare Theatre Company for their Summer Shorts Festival, out of over 100 submissions.
A 10-minute segment of the full-length play THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION has been selected by The Bechdel Group, NYC, for their online Shortlist Sunday on June 6th, 2021. The play was shortlisted for their reading season.
The Gemco Players in Emerald, Victoria, have selected THE CLEITAGORA TEST for their postponed 2020 Take Ten Festival, now happening sometime in 2021.
Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, Canada, will be presenting an online production of the one-act version of THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION April 21-24, 2021. This Festival closed abruptly in March 2020 when the lockdown occurred, before this play could be presented.
Bangkok Community Theatre in Thailand will be presenting the short play BLAME IT ON BARBIE as part of their Zoom Shorts 2021 YouTube series.
The monologue PROTEGE was selected for the March 3, 2021 presentation of the Writer’s Block Radio Hour, broadcast from Scotland.
A monologue from WATER MUSIC will be presented by Theatre Three, Port Jefferson NY, as part of their Off-stage/On-Line Youtube series.
Walking Shadow Readers Theatre in Washington, D.C., has selected the full-length play TOUCH THE MOON for their New Play Development Program. It will receive a live public reading on Friday, April 30th, 2021 on YouTube.
THE LOST GIRL (with collaborator Ben Bonnema) has been selected for Jewish Ensemble Theatre’s JETFEST 2021 in Walled Lake, Michigan. Our full-length musical have a socially-distanced Equity reading over Zoom on Thursday, January 28th, 2021.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected from 1,050 submissions for Smith & Kraus BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2021, publication date August 2021.
SEX, LIES AND STYROFOAM has been selected for an online reading by Theatre Lab.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM will be presented virtually as part of Violet Surprise Theatre’s LAVENDER MENACES Play Festival April 26-27, 2021, to coincide with Lesbian Visibility Day.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT has been selected for the Short Attention Span Theatre Festival at Pensacola Little Theatre, Pensacola Florida, February 18-21, 2021.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM has been selected for the TAKE TEN Short Play Festival at Broward College, FL, for April 23, 24, 26, 2021.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for the shortlist for Short & Sweet Dubai Play Festival 2021, out of 550+ entries. Finalists to be chosen in early 2021.
LUNCH MONEY, THE SANITY CLAUSET, IT’S ELEMENTAL, and THE BEAT GOES ON will all be performed as part of the 12@1 One-Day Short Play Festival on February 27, 2021, at Studio 1 Community Theatre, Burlington, NC studio1online.org
The one-act version of TOUCH THE MOON has made the shortlist of 14 plays (out of 294 submissions) for the Carnon Downs Drama Group’s One -Act Play Competition in Cornwall, UK.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM has been selected by Third Citizen Theatre Company in Salem, MASS, for their online DIGITAL DIONYSIA festival.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for a production at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlocken, MI, December 10-12, 2020.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for a socially distanced outdoor live production at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois on October 22, 2020.
Arianna Rose is the winning playwright of the 2020 Wayne’s War competition from Studio 1 Theatre Company in North Carolina for her short plays DOUBLE TROUBLE and BLAME IT ON BARBIE.
Studio 1 Theatre Company in North Carolina, have selected Arianna Rose as one of the 12 playwrights with her 3-minute plays BLAME IT ON BARBIE and DOUBLE TROUBLE for their Wayne’s War online competition on October 3rd 2020
LEAVING A HOLE, a five-minute monologue, will be one of the featured stories on the WRITERS BLOCK RADIO HOUR in Scotland. 9/9/2020, 4 pm EST https://supersoundscotland.net/Site/
TOUCH THE MOON full-length version received Honorable Mention in the Panndora’s Box 14th Annual New Play Festival, Long Beach, CA. It made the top Ten out of 237 submissions.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM was selected by Open Space Arts Theatre Company in Reisterstown, Maryland, for their Waonderlust Summer Theatre Festival, occurring sometime in 2021.
TOUCH THE MOON (full-length) was a semi- finalist for the prestigious 2020 New Works Festival at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
THE SANITY CLAUSET was selected by the Anacortes Community Players “THANK YOU TEN” short play competition. It runs July 31 - August 21 in a virtual production: https://acttheatre.com/
For the second year in a row, a play by Ms. Rose made it to both the longlist and short list of Pint-Sized Plays Competition in the UK. This year, SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM made it to the shortlist.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM is one of the four winners of the Clocktower Troupe’s AMAZE Competition and will have a production in 2020-2021. Both A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM and THE SANITY CLAUSET made the top 20 list of finalists for this competition. The Clocktower Players are the resident theatre company of the Irvington Town Hall Theatre in Irvington, NY.
TOUCH THE MOON (full-length) has won the 3rd Place Full-Length Play award for the inaugural Mixing it Up Productions 2020 Spring Emerging Playwrights Contest. Full list of winners here: https://mailchi.mp/63e6424f312f/undertheradar-6445544
4 Broadway and Off Broadway judges selected the 3 winning plays from over 800 international submissions.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM, a runner-up in the Spark Creative Works Women’s Writing Festival from 330 submissions, has been selected by them for a Zoom reading with NY actors in 2020.
BOOM, a monologue, has been selected for the 7/1/2020 edition of Writers Block Radio Hour in Scotland, on www.supersoundScotland.net.
TOUCH THE MOON (full-length version) is one of five plays selected from 167 submissions for the 2021-2022 season at HRC Showcase Theater in Hudson NY. The staged reading will take place in March 2022.
“COME TO MY SALON” and “DUST OFF YOUR DREAMS” with lyrics by Arianna Rose and music by Robby Stamper, will be part of the “Women’s Stories” edition of Writers Block Radio Hour curated by Vivian Lermond, July 8th 4 pm EST, supersoundscotland.net
the award-winning short play FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been licensed and published by SMITH SCRIPTS UK: https://www.smithscripts.co.uk/product/family-by-numbers-by-arianna-rose/
The short play MAKE MULCH FROM IT has been licensed and published by Smith Scripts UK:
https://www.smithscripts.co.uk/product/make-mulch-from-it-by-arianna-rose/
The short play WE THREE has been licensed and published by Smith Scripts UK: https://www.smithscripts.co.uk/product/we-three-by-arianna-rose/
The one-act version of TOUCH THE MOON has been selected one of three winners (from 236 entries) for the 2020 Kenneth Branagh Award for Drama Writing/Windsor Fringe UK. https://www.windsorfringe.co.uk/drama-writing-awards-2020-the-long-list.html
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM will have an online reading as part of Theatre@Home: The Road Not Taken IV on Monday, 6/14/20. https://www.facebook.com/events/3046454715440875/
FAMILY BY NUMBERS was selected for the Grays Harbor College Ten-Minute Online Play Festival occurring on June 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm.
https://ghc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JGtfyjlTTzGGLL--5A7_eQ
THE RIPPLE EFFECT was named a semi-finalist in the 2020 Edgefest 10-minute play festival, Birdhouse Theatre, GA.
The short plays LUNCH MONEY and DOUBLE TROUBLE have been published on the website www.stayathomeplays.com for children to perform while under lockdown during the pandemic.
THE LOST GIRL, Music by Ben Bonnema, Lyrics by Arianna Rose, book by Ben Bonnema & Arianna Rose, is one of six musicals selected for The Florida Festival of New Musicals concert readings, June 24-27, Winter Park Playhouse, Winter Park Florida. More information here: https://www.broadwayworld.com/orlando/article/The-4th-Annual-FLORIDA-FESTIVAL-OF-NEW-MUSICALS-at-The-Winter-Park-Playhouse-Announces-Winning-Selections-20200604
the monologue MICHAEL’S BOY-GIRL PARTY will be presented as part of the Writer’s Block Radio Hour, Glasgow Scotland, on Wednesday May 27, 2020.
BLAME IT ON BARBIE is one of 5 plays selected from over 70 submissions for Center Stage Israel’s 5-minute play festival, happening online on Sunday, May 17th at 1 pm EST: https://www.facebook.com/centerstageisrael
BLAME IT ON BARBIE and DOUBLE TROUBLE are two of the plays selected for Fantasy Theatre Factorys’ online SHORT & SWEET: LET’S PLAY FESTIVAL on Friday, May 15th on their facebook page at 7 pm: https://www.facebook.com/ftfshows
TOUCH THE MOON (full length version) is a finalist for the Swarthmore Players Club New Plays Festival. One of 17 plays out of 113 entries.
https://pcstheater.org/second-stage/new-play-festival/
Michael’s Boy-Girl Party, an original monologue by Arianna Rose, will be presented as part of Theatre Lab’s Online Original Monologue Festival, a Facebook Live event on March 29 2020 to support South Florida artists who have lost their income due to the pandemic. Acted by Krystal Millie Moore, directed by David A. Hyland. Link: https://www.facebook.com/theatrelabfau/
In light of the pandemic, THEATRE THREE in Port Jefferson NY has rescheduled their one-act play festival to February 28 - April 3, 2021. THE BEAT GOES ON will be part of their festival.
THE CLITAGORA TEST has been selected for the Violet Surprise/Lavender Menace Short Play Festival at Otherworld Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, May 15-17 2020. (UPDATE: indefinitely postponed due to pandemic)
Arianna Rose has been named the new Dramatists Guild Ambassador for the South Florida region.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for a May 2020 production by Tree City Playhouse in Sylvania OH, and received the 3rd Place Award in the contest. (Indefinitely postponed due to Pandemic)
R.S.V.P., book by Donna Warfield, Music by Aden Kent Ramsey and lyrics by Arianna Rose, will be produced at Columbus State University’s Free Stage on April 19-20, 2020, Columbus, GA. (Cancelled due to Pandemic)
FAMILY BY NUMBERS received the 2019 Honorable Mention Award from the New Plays of Merit Playwriting Contest: https://www.newworksofmeritplaywritingcontest.com/2019.html
WATER MUSIC will be produced by Sundog Theatre Company as part of ‘SCENES FROM THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY 2020’ February 22 - March 1, Staten Island, NY: https://sundogtheatre.org/production/scenes-from-the-staten-island-ferry-2020/
THE RIPPLE EFFECT will be produced by Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill/Laughing Dog Comic Shorts Festival on February 14-16, 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. https://www.auxdogtheatre.org/up-next
HOW THE DEED IS DONE has been chosen for a semi-staged reading by Write About Now: Valentine’s Special, on February 16th at The Studio in New Wimbledon Theatre, London, England.
The one-act version of TOUCH THE MOON will have a staged reading at the William Inge Theater Festival New Play Lab in Independence, KS in May 2020. One of 20 plays chosen from over 200 submissions. (postponed to 2021 due to pandemic)
Unidentified Stages Theatre Company will present ALL THAT PEZ as part of their February reading series at the S. Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange NJ.
the full-length version of TOUCH THE MOON has been selected by Sandrell River Theater for their New Year, New Works series. It will have a developmental staged reading March 22, 2020 in Florida. (indefinitely postponed due to pandemic)
DOUBLE TROUBLE was chosen for the Fast & Furious Festival, Stage Left Theatre, Spokane WA, March 6-8 2020.
Ms. Rose was a finalist for the 2019-2020 $100,000 Kleban Award for Musical Theatre Lyric Writing.
For the second year in a row, Ms. Rose will have a short play in the prestigious Theatre Three New Play Festival in Port Jefferson, NY. THE BEAT GOES ON will debut in April 11 2020 and run for nine performances through May 9. For more information: https://theatrethree.com/one-act-2020.html (rescheduled for 2021 due to Pandemic)
For the third year in a row, a short play by Arianna Rose has been chosen for “An Afternoon of Short Plays” by Theatre Lab @FAU in Boca Raton, FL. Her play HOW THE DEED IS DONE will be presented in an afternoon of readings during the New Play Festival at Theatre Lab on Sunday, January 5th. For tickets/more information: https://fauevents.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1619&r=d492a47390af48b6b9d3bf86cc464da5
R.S.V.P., a one-act musical with book by Donna Warfield, music by Aden Kent Ramsey, and lyrics by Arianna Rose, will be produced as part of Atlanta Theatre-to-Go’s spring tour “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.
Arianna Rose has been selected as one of four playwrights participating in the prestigious 2- year Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program, working with master playwright Kia Corthron.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION has been selected for the 2020 New Ideas Festival at Alumnae Theatre, Toronto, Canada, March 25-29, 2020.
THE LOST GIRL by Ben Bonnema and Arianna Rose, is a semi-finalist for the Florida Festival of New Musicals.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION will be workshopped by Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles as part of their WriteHer New Works Festival in December 2019. https://www.celebrationtheatre.com/writeher-play-festival
HOW THE DEED IS DONE has been selected for the Tomo Suru Players “ABOUT LOVE FESTIVAL OF SHORT PLAYS” November 5-1oth at the Havana Theatre in Vancouver, B.C. www.tomosuruplayers.com
I LOVE A PARADE is a semi-finalist for Avante Garage Theatre Company’s “Word Power! Impolite Plays, Poems and Power Ballads of Protest!”. over 327 submissions. Los Angeles, CA. www.avantegarage.com
THE BEAT GOES ON has been chosen for reading by Plays & Pizza Florida edition, Nov. 15, 2019, Coral Gables Senior Center.
THE SANITY CLAUSET has been chosen for OnStage Atlanta’s Merry Little Holiday Shorts, Dec 11-21, 2019 in Scottdale, GA. https://www.facebook.com/events/2367830603538849/
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for the December One-Act Play Festival at Connecticut Western State University.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been named a semi-finalist for the Winter 2020 HERE WE GO Site-Specific Live Performance Festival in NYC.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been chosen for the Topanga Actor’s Company 10-minute Festival in Los Angeles, CA. September 28th at Topanga Library. One of 14 plays chosen from over 600 submissions.
Oldest Son’s monologue from FAMILY BY NUMBERS will be published in 100 MONOLOGUES FROM NEW PLAYS 2020- MEN; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
My interview on the cable show SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS is now available on YouTube. In it, a discussion of my writing career, Miami New Musicals, and supporting local playwrights:
THE BEAT GOES ON has been chosen for The Players Follies Play Reading Festival on November 1, 2019, in Sarasota, Florida.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS is on the shortlist (out of 600 submissions) for the Topanga Actors Company 10-Minute Play Festival in Topanga Canyon, CA.
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION made the shortlist (top 25 plays out of 400 submissions) to The Bechdel Group, an NYC theatre company.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS has been selected for the Magnolia Arts Center 10-minute Play Festival August 9th in Greenville, NC. Staged readings starting at 7:30 pm. https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=mac
THE EQUIVALENT OF SENSATION has made the short list for the AMPLIFY Festival produced by Kibo Productions at Theatro Technis, Camden, London, England, August 2019.
DOUBLE TROUBLE has made both the long list (out of 400) and the short list (1 of 56) for Pint Size Plays UK.
THE BEAT GOES ON has been chosen by Seaside Players for their Sea Shorts Festival, October 11-21, 2019 in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL. https://www.facebook.com/seasideplayers/videos/2466440403441715/UzpfSTEwNTM2MDE4MDA6MTAyMTc1MjcyMjU2MjY1MzM/
WE THREE chosen for Shakespeare Troupe Summer Fest Reading Series “Quoting Shakespeare” as part of the South Florida Theatre League New Play Festival. Monday, August 19, Pompano Beach Cultural Center, Pompano Beach FL. www.shakestroupe.org
FAMILY BY NUMBERS one of eight plays chosen out of 65 submissions for Lowell Arts “Playbytes by Playwrights: Lost or Found” new play festival at Lowell Arts, Lowell Michigan, November 1-9, 2019 www.lowellartsmi.org playbytes-by-playwrights
FAMILY BY NUMBERS wins Audience Choice Award as Best Play (with cash prize) at S. Baldwin End of the Road New Play Festival, Gulf Shores, Alabama, July 2019!
FAMILY BY NUMBERS , one of nine plays chosen from over 120 submissions for The South Baldwin Community Theatre’s “End of the Road New Play Festival & Beach Party” July 12-14, Gulf Shores, Alabama. http://www.sbct.biz/schedules-and-synopses-2019/5th-annual-end-of-the-road.html
FAMILY BY NUMBERS , one of ten plays chosen from over 1,100 submissions for Artist’s Exchange One-Act Play Festival, July 11-27, 2019, Theatre 82, Cranston, RI. https://www.artists-exchange.org/one-act-play-festival?fbclid=IwAR3ZdXpViTAijKfWb69Up18SlogutpoJtFKmuLfN1bCKZg99pYcKFBMTKWk
Gi60 One-Minute Play Festival, Studio 307 Theatre, Brooklyn College, NY June 19-22, 2019 8:00 pm performances, will feature a 1-minute play by Arianna Rose. 1 of 50 plays chosen from hundreds of submissions.
R.S.V.P. (book by Donna Warfield, lyrics by Arianna Rose, music by Aden Kent Ramsey) will have a reading as part of the South Florida Theatre League Summer Readings Series, MUSICAL MINIS. August 5th at Miami New Musicals @MAD
FAMILY BY NUMBERS won the 1st place prize of $500 for BEST PLAY in the 14th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival produced by Theatre Odyssey in Sarasota, Florida, May 2019.
MAKE MULCH FROM IT is one of 8 plays chosen from over 200 submissions to be produced in FIGHT LIKE A GIRL 2: Benefit for Cancer Research UK. Performances August 15-17, 2019, at the King’s Arms Theatre, Salsford, Manchester England.
MAKE MULCH FROM IT shortlisted (1 of ten plays chosen) for the Slackline Productions Company UK for their Writing Night May 26 at Southwark Theatre, London. 10 plays were chosen from over 140 submissions. 6 plays will be chosen by the 6 directors.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS chosen from over 100 submissions for Gulfport Community Player’s 19th Annual Summer One Acts Festival, July 11-21, 2019, Gulfport, Florida
Family by Numbers, by Arianna Rose, has been selected as one of ten winners of this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival. FAMILY BY NUMBERS received the highest rating from the Play Selection Committee. It will receive a production, along with the other plays, July 11 -21 at the Catherine A. Hickman Theater of Gulfport.
The theater is located at the intersection of Beach Boulevard South and 26th Avenue South in Gulfport, Florida.
For ticketing information:
FAMILY BY NUMBERS chosen for Theatre Odyssey’s 14th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival, May 9-12, 2019, Sarasota Florida
Family by Numbers, by Arianna Rose, has been selected as one of ten winners of this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival. It will receive a production, along with the other plays, May 9-12 at the Jane B. Cook Theatre,
FSU/Asolo Center for the Performing Arts
5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota FL 34243
For ticketing information:
FAMILY BY NUMBERS CHOSEN FROM OVER 500 SUBMISSIONS FOR BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE THEATRE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN DREAM?”
Bismarck State College Theatre and the BSC Drama Club, in collaboration with the Humanities North Dakota, as part of the HumanitiesND year-long "Game Changer Ideas Festival,” and with the North Dakota Council on the Arts, is pleased to present the Short Play Festival 2019, an annual part of the BSC ArtsQuest programming.
Six plays were chosen from over 500 submissions, and will receive a production on May 1 and 2, 2019, at 3:30 and 7:30 pm, at the Sidney J. Lee Auditorium at Bismarck State College, Bismarck, ND.
For more information:
FAMILY BY NUMBERS CHOSEN FROM OVER 300 SUBMISSIONS FOR THEATRE THREE 22nd ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ONE-ACT PLAYS April 13 - May 5, Port Jefferson, NY.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS was the only play selected for this festival to receive the unanimous approval from the Board of Directors.
THEATRE THREE proudly presents The Twenty-Second Annual Festival of One-Act Plays, from April 13 through May 5, 2019, at The Ronald F. Peierls Theatre, on the Second Stage. Selected from over 400 submissions world-wide, these six cutting-edge premieres are guaranteed to entertain and engage. The first half closes with Arianna Rose’s lyrical and heart-breaking Family by Numbers.
For tickets and information:
DOUBLE TROUBLE chosen for Playwright’s Roundtable VCT New Play Festival, Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando FL, April 19-20, 2019.
For more information: https://events.valenciacollege.edu/event/student-directed_one_act_festival_5273?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=Valencia+College#.XIdIDShKg2x
THE SPELL, book and lyrics by Arianna Rose, music by Matthew Gregory and Arianna Rose, presented by MAD Performing Arts April 14, 2 pm & 5 pm
Performed by MAD Performing Arts Musical Theatre 3 & 4 student classes.
MAD PERFORMING ARTS BLACK BOX THEATRE
645 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL 33161
THE LOST GIRL chosen from over 70 submission for staged reading at Viterbo’s NewWorks Festival, La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 2, 2019
A staged reading of this full length musical, Lyrics and book by Arianna Rose, Music and book by Jonathan Larson award winner Ben Bonnema, was presented at the Weber Center for the Arts in downtown LaCrosse.
https://www.webercenterarts.org/event/new-works-festival/2019-02-01/