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Arianna Geneson is an NYC-based creator.
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. She has received multiple grants for research and translation work in Italy. 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.