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Arianna Geneson is an NYC-based creator.
LATEST NEWS:
Arianna was delighted to perform as a special guest in "A Lonesome Evening," hosted by Lonesome Press. The event featured performances by the legendary Penny Arcade and longtime fixtures of the NYC poetry scene Ilka Scobie and Jeff Wright.
Arianna's research on the Holocaust in Italy received a grant from Pratt Institute's Graduate Student Engagement Fund for a second year in a row. She used this year's funding to return to Italy over the winter holidays and spend time researching in the archive which houses the letters she is currently translating.
Arianna's poem "I, Animal, Other" was included in a special feature zine by Proyecto Voces, a magazine in Sonora, Mexico highlighting work from influential and emerging artists, designers, writers, and musicians.
Other NEWS:
Arianna's poem "La Bella Sicilia che ti brucia al sangue" was published last August in Proyecto Voces' literary journal. The poem is presented in English and Spanish, with translation by Voces' editor in chief herself Marie Anne Arreola. Check it out here!
Arianna's poem "Hit Play" was published by The Kollection in an anthology commemorating their Poetry Gallery events, where the poem was originally exhibited. Available for purchase at this link!
Arianna completed a two week writing residency at Björkö Konstnod in the northern archipelago of Stockholm in July.
Secret Pete's hosted a reading at The New York City Poetry Festival this July.
Arianna was a featured poet in a reading series curated by Wesley Stokes at Unnameable Books this summer.
Arianna is a writer/producer of #1 Apple Fiction podcast, top 1% download (250K+), & Austin Film Festival 2nd-Rounder Elucidity. Season 2 coming soon! For the past 2.5 years, Arianna has run "Secret Pete's," a Brooklyn-based poetry community hosting open mics at Pete's Candy Store and readings at Brooklyn Art Haus. As a playwright, her work has been performed at The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, The Writing is Live Festival, and Rites & Reason Theatre. Her poetry has been published by The Kollection, Proyecto Voces, 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 worked as a feature reader for Austin Film Festival; at Second Stage Theatre (Broadway & Off-B'way future seasons); Futurepoem (2024 Other Futures Award); and privately for novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters with work 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 acted 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.
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