Ariella Carmell is a playwright, screenwriter, and producer whose work is darkly comic and provocative. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she was honored with the 2019 Olga and Paul Menn Prize for Playwriting and named the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellow in Screenwriting by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Black List that same year.

Her theatrical work ranges from intimate character studies to ensemble pieces, all rooted in indelible settings and populated by compelling characters. Plays include Sit for Me (SoHo Playhouse;TheaterLab), Please Let Me Save You (Emerging Artists Theater; NYC Fringe Festival), and Her Resting Place (New York Theater Festival). She is directing her most recent play, Women Who Cut, as part of Circle Festival at AMT Theater.

Ariella's screen work includes the feature screenplay Know Your Body, which has received recognition from BlueCat, the Austin Film Festival, and other competitions, and Fathers and Daughters, developed through the Collyer Fellowship and advancing to the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinals.

As a performer, she has trained at T. Schreiber Studio and the Acting Studio, appearing in various productions. Her writings have been published in Alma, the Brooklyn Review, the Sierra Nevada Review, and by the Jewish Book Council. She lives in New York City.