ariel sibert http://www.arielsibert.com | [email protected] | 818.429.0063 education work history Yale School of Drama, New Haven CT Literary Management & Dramaturgy Intern M.A. Dramaturgy, expected June 2018 Actors Theatre of Louisville 2014-2015 Season , Princeton NJ - Served as dramaturg and an assistant dramaturg for shows in the B.A. History, June 2012 Main Stage, Apprentice Company and Humana Festival seasons Graduated with Honors (credits listed on following page) Class Awards for Poetry & Theater - Wrote dramaturgical materials for lobby displays and Limelight (the theatre’s promotional magazine); conducted interviews with directors Coursework and playwrights including Colman Domingo and Charles Mee Theatre & Performance; Modern & - Acted as a reader for the National Ten-Minute Play Contest and The Contemporary Art; Film; Media Theory New Voices Young Playwrights Contest Training - Provided copy-editing and transcription support Devising Workshop with The Mad Ones; - Aided in the day-to-day operations of the Literary Department Dramatic Literature with R.N. Sandberg; Mask & Clown with Quinn Bauriedel of Pig Iron Theatre Content Strategist & Copywriter Company; Scene Study with Tim Vasen Tonic Design Co. October 2012 - July 2014 - Advanced from intern to full-time writer/researcher within 2 months - Compiled competitive, behavioral and strategic research for clients skills - Wrote original copy for websites, apps, videos and blogs - Produced information architecture for apps and websites Languages - Presented research and pitched strategic concepts that helped triple Proficient in written and spoken Spanish, the company’s roster of work over 1.5 years beginning proficiency in German - Clients included K. Hovnanian Homes, AstraZeneca, Campbell Soup Software Company, Johnson & Johnson and Fox & Roach Realtors Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator); Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Communications Director & Executive Board Member Powerpoint); Apple iWork (Pages, Numbers, Princeton Summer Theater April - August 2012 Keynote); WordPress; OmniGraffle, beginning - Co-directed the 2010 & 2012 seasons of Princeton Summer Theater, HTML & CSS a 501(c)3 nonprofit company Other Theatrical Skills - Conceptualized and wrote original dramaturgical articles Acting; Costume Design & Repair; House - Collaborated on season programming and artistic direction Management; Scenic Painting; Casting; - Aided in staffing, auditioning, hiring and company management Producing; Publicity, Marketing & - Designed and co-developed all publicity materials, including season Communications; Development brochures, posters, and print/online advertisements using Adobe CS

Director of Publicity & Executive Board Member other experience Princeton Summer Theater April - August 2010 Community Programming Director - Doubled the amount of publicly available dramaturgical and , February 2009-December 2010 educational content per show Directed the Student Playwright’s - Helped inaugurate the PST Young Playwright’s Festival, showcasing Festival and the 24-Hour Play Festival new work by local high school students - Drafted press releases and acted as reviewer liaison Company Member - Helped guide the artistic direction of a season that drew more than Princeton Summer Theatre, June-August 2009 6,500 patrons for its eight-week season Co-led educational workshops; produced - Aided in staffing, auditioning, hiring and company management costumes for/performed in 4 shows professional dramaturgy Dramaturg, Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company: The Solo Mio Series (nine original Actors Theatre; Devised by the dir. Actors Theatre Staff & Directing monologues) Apprentice Company Interns

The Ensemble Series (two original Actors Theatre; Devised by the dir. Actors Theatre Directing Interns one-act plays) Apprentice Company Sophie Blumberg & Rachel Dart

The Tens (three new ten-minute Plays by Robyn Carroll, Patricia dir. Caitlin O’Connell, John Rooney & plays, selected by the company) Cotter & Sandeep Das Michael Legg

Assistant Dramaturg, Actors Theatre of Louisville 2015 Humana Festival: The Glory of the World Charles Mee dir. Les Waters (asst. to Amy Wegener)

Dot Colman Domingo dir. Meredith McDonough (asst. to Kimberly Colburn)

That High Lonesome Sound Cory Hinkle, Charise Castro Smith, dir. Pirronne Yousefzadeh (asst. to Hannah Rae Montgomery) Diana Grisanti & Jeff Augustin

Assistant Dramaturg, Actors Theatre of Louisville 2015 Season: At the Vanishing Point Naomi Iizuka dir. Les Waters (asst. to Hannah Rae Montgomery)

The Last Five Years Book/Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown dir. Meredith McDonough (asst. to Amy Wegener)

A Christmas Carol Adapted by Barbara Field dir. Drew Fracher (asst. to Amy Wegener)

Freelance Dramaturgy: The Urban Retreat Reading Series Plays by students of Young dir. Young Playwrights Inc. Staff (short works by high school-aged Playwrights Inc.’s Urban Retreat writers)

Voices Inside: A Prison Play Series Plays by the students of the dir. Actors Theatre Staff & Directing (readings of plays by inmates at a Playwriting Intensive at Northpoint Interns Northpoint Training Center, KY) Training Center dir. Rachel Dart; Actors Theatre of Brothers in a Riot (a new one-act) By Joshua Bonzie and Max Monnig Louisville Independent Series

The Wicked Sisters (a new play) By Rachel Dart & Collin Morris dir. Rachel Dart; Actors Theatre of Louisville Independent Series other theatrical credits

Boeing Boeing Marc Camoletti Gretchen Princeton Summer Theater dir. Julia Bumke lyrics by ; Costume Design Princeton Summer Theater book by dir. Adam Immerwahr Gaslight Patrick Hamilton Nancy Princeton Summer Theater dir. R.N. Sandberg Peter Pan Adaptation by Shawn Fennell Peter Princeton Summer Theater dir. Maggie Tominey Catch Me if You Can Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert Elizabeth Theatre Intime dir. Max Rosmarin Ariel Princeton Shakespeare Co. dir. Jenna Devine God’s Ear Jenny Schwartz Lenora Lewis Center for the Arts dir. Christopher Simpson Other People’s Houses Shawn Fennell Sammi Lewis Center for the Arts dir. Shawn Fennell The Underpants Louise Princeton Summer Theater dir. Shawn Fennell Costume Design Princeton Summer Theater dir. Lileana Blain–Cruz No Time for Comedy S.N. Behrman Clementine; Seamstress Princeton Summer Theater dir. Mitch Frank Mary Zimmerman Myrrha; Hunger Theatre Intime dir. Molly Silberberg Flammentangel Kabaret Sarah Outhwaite Blandine Lewis Center for the Arts dir. Sarah Outhwaite selected writing & research

“Charles Mee” (2014) & “Colman Domingo” Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2015 Published in Limelight: Humana Edition, February-April 2015 Short-form biographical articles compiled from interviews with playwrights Charles Mee and Colman Domingo

Warp Time: Amateurs and Obsolescence in the Digital Art of Olia Lialina and Cory Arcangel Princeton University, 2012 Senior Thesis advised by Professor Hal Foster (Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology) Inquiry into the use of obsolete or malfunctioning technologies within the digital art of Olia Lialina and Cory Arcangel

Completing the Body: Critical Responses to the Sculpture of Eva Hesse Princeton University, 2011 Fall Junior Paper advised by Professor Christopher Heuer Analysis of critical responses, from the 1970s to the mid-90s, to the body as abstracted in the sculpture of Eva Hesse

A Public Work Princeton University, 2011 Advised by Professor Colin Lang Discussion of ideology, gender and identity within Jenny Holzer’s Truisms and Xenon as texts and as public installations