Ariel Mitchell
From Gibson Island, MD
Ariel Mitchell hails from a small island in the Chesapeake Bay. She earned her BA in Playwriting (Music minor) April 2013 from Brigham Young University. She has written several plays including Give Me Moonlight and A Second Birth, for which she was awarded the Mimi and Harold Steinberg 2013 National Student Playwriting Award, third place for the 2013 David Mark Cohen Award, and the 2011 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award. She has also dramaturged many productions including The Completely Fictional Utterly True Strange Final Tale of Edgar Allan Poe at Centerstage in Baltimore, What the Bellhop Saw at the Utah Repertory Theater in Murray, Utah, and Selections from Gone Missing and The Cleverest Thief, a devised piece, at BYU. While she has written plays, screenplays, and a TV pilot, musicals are her first love. She began her writing career in her sophomore year of high school with Mask Club (book, lyrics, and some music), a musical about high school students choosing and changing their identities like masks. She is currently working on MORMONish, an autobiographical comedy she hopes to turn into a musical. MORMONish tells the story of a high school girl with a Jewish mother and Mormon father. Conflicted and confused by her very opinionated family (her extended family includes an atheist, a liberal democrat, an uber-conservative republican and an assorted bunch of Mormons and Jews) and their conditional love, she must decide how she wants to live her life, what she believes, and where she should go to college.
Ariel Mitchell of Gibson Island, Md., has been awarded a Fellowship worth $5,000 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi--the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all acad...
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