Arianna Rose (she/her/hers) is a professional Playwright, Musical Theatre Lyricist and Librettist, Theatre Director, Dramaturg, Visual Artist and Educator. She is the recipient of the MAC Song of the Year Award,  the York Theatre NEO Award,  and various best play/playwright awards from Theatre Odyssey, 4th Street Theatre, Tree City Playhouse, Midnight Sun Theatre, Town & Gown Theatre, Mixing It Up Productions, the Know Theatre, Studio 1 Theatre, South Baldwin Theatre, Veterans Repertory Theatre and Clocktower Theatre Company.  Her work has been presented to date in 36 states and Washington D.C. in the U.S., and internationally in England, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and UAE. 

Her short plays were selected 4 consecutive years for Theatre Lab at FAU’s New Works Festival readings, 3 consecutive years for Theatre Three’s One-Act Play Festival, three times for Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop’s 10-Minute Play Festival, and twice for Midnight Sun Theatre’s Serial Bowl Competition and Theatre Odyssey’s Ten-Minute Play Festival, winning best play for FAMILY BY NUMBERS.

 Arianna was one of four playwrights selected for the 2019-2021 Miami-Dade County Council of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program, moderated by Kia Corthron.   Two of her full-length plays developed in the program have gone on to have readings, workshops and productions across the country and awarded finalist status in many playwriting competitions. She was a 2022 participant in the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive and the William Inge Theatre Festival Playlab.

Arianna is a two-time finalist for the Edward Kleban Librettists and Lyricists Award. She was one of the three finalists for the 2020 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing in the UK.  Her musical A COLLECTIBLE SENSATION, with collaborator Amy Engelhardt, rose to semi-finalist for the 2023 Eugene O’Neill Music Theatre Conference in Connecticut, with the libretto being a 2023 Kleban Award finalist, and was a finalist for the TRU/STREAMING MUSICALS Reading Series 2025 in NYC and Musical Theatre West Reading Series in CA. Her musical THE LOST GIRL with collaborator Ben Bonnema was a top 20 finalist for NAMT 2022 and has been selected for extensive development.

 Edge Media Network  lauded Ms. Rose’s  play FAMILY BY NUMBERS, calling it “One of the best plays” with a “powerfully haunting conclusion”. The world premiere was at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY in April 2019 with more than 30 productions in the U.S. and Canada. Selected twice for Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program, and published in the 2021 Smith & Kraus Anthology of Best 10-Minute Plays and Theatre Odyssey Best Plays Anthology, joining her other winning play SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM.  Arianna also has monologues published in Applause Books “Best New Monologue Anthologies “ 2019 and 2020, and Smith & Kraus’ Best Womens and Mens Monologue Anthologies 2023 and in the upcoming 2024 Best 10-Minute Plays and Best Women’s Monologues Anthologies.

 Arianna is a Playwriting Instructor, both freelance and with the Dramatists Guild Institute. She was awarded Adjunct Professor of the Year for 2021-2022 at the community college where she teaches.  She has also served as an Adjunct Theatre Professor at her alma mater Bucknell University, and an instructor at Bloomsburg State University Continuing Education. M.F.A., NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; B.A. in Theatre from Bucknell University; BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop.

 A proud member of ASCAP, Literary Managers & Dramaturges of the Americas, Musicians Local 802, SEIU, New Play Exchange, The South Florida Theatre League, and the Dramatists Guild of America, where she has served as South Florida Ambassador since 2020.  She is the founder and moderator of the Plays on Purpose/New Musicals weekly writers group, and is also a Play Mentor with the Dramatists Guild Plays-in-Progress program.

A born and bred New Yorker, Arianna moved to Florida in 2016 and has been making a name for herself there in the vibrant theatre community.