Ariella Como Stoian

Writer Playwright Queer new-writing Director Dramaturg Immersive, interactive theatre-maker

My name is Ariella (they/she) and I'm an early-career playwright and theatre-maker from Romania, Australia, Italy and now the UK, based in London. I create work through a queer, intersectional lens to express joyful, imaginative, sometimes fantastical stories.
I often explore themes of care, loss/grief, gender, kinship and love, informed by my own experiences as a chronically ill artist.

I'm vitally interested in experimental and playful storytelling, speculative fictions and genre work (whatever that means), seeing magic on stage and in multi-disciplinary co-creation.

I come from a dramaturgical and new writing background, so I have previously been very story led. However, I am now developing a practice that incorporates game design, interactivity, immersion, LARP, and compositionally driven collaboration, re-considering the placement of story and text.

Credits

Text & Co-creator, You wake up/octopus, Theatre Deli, SHIFT+SPACE, 2 days, 2023

Director, Not Another One, VAULT Festival, 2 days, 2023

Playwright, Hive, The Space, 2 days, 2023 (next at Assembly 2023)

Playwright, The dusk before, Engine Room, Omnibus Theatre, 1 day, 2023

Assisting and Devising, FREE Will, Parabolic Theatre, 2022

Playwright, The dusk before (extract), Southwark Playhouse, 1 day, 2023

Text & Co-creator, You wake up/octopus (WIP), Sprint Fesitval, Camden People's Theatre, 1 day, 2023

Training

MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Game design
  • Outdoor performance
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Theatre making
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

No

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