She has developed screenplays with New Line Cinema, Seven Bucks Productions, 3311 Productions, Dichotomy Creative Group, CrossCheck Studios, and Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. A member of the Writers Guild of America West, Ariel has taken home the grand prize of Script Pipeline ($20,000) and the Bluecat Screenplay Competition ($10,000). She's also advanced twice into the second round of the Sundance Labs and the semifinals of the Nicholl Fellowship.
Ariel broke into the industry with her screenplay FRENEMY, which landed on the annual Black List, an industry insider poll of the best unproduced scripts currently floating around Hollywood. The potential of the script (and its comedic take on Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton's feud) drew solo coverage in W, Vice, Dazed, and PAPER Magazine, which dubbed it "one of the buzziest entries on the list." She was also named to the 2025 Women's List, a collection of the top scripts written by well...women.
Ariel graduated magna cum laude from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, which awarded her a full-tuition Trustee Scholarship. She was the first student ever admitted to both their Writing for Screen & Television and Film Production programs. As a Trojan, her writing won the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Writing and the Marguerite Roberts Screenwriting Award.
She was also invited to give a TEDx talk on storytelling, which won't be linked because she was 20 and naive and desperately needed a blow-out that day.
Now, that ambition drives Ariel to defy her wheat allergy and eat copious amounts of penne.
