Ariel Lauryn

From "Untold Stories from the War with the Newts" Photo: Tom Kordenbrock

Ariel is a plucky polymath* of devised theater and puppetry, with comedic, absurdist tendencies.

Ariel is an award-winning collaborator, writer, and performer.

Ariel has performed nationally, internationally, Off-Broadway,

On-Camera, with and without puppets.

She has coached puppetry, movement, and devising at places like The Public, Puppet Kitchen, Cornell College, and Physical Comedy Lab, and has participated in residencies including PATCH (Henson Carriage House), Celebration Barn (ME), KO Festival (MA), and Object Movement Festival (NYC).

Ariel really wants a dog.

*Ariel is also a creative consultant, teacher, painter, puppet builder, writer, and yoga instructor.

Puppetry (Coach, Performer,and/or Co Creator): Oedipus El Rey (The Public), The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (Drama Desk Nominated, Off-Bway), Feathers of Fire International Tour, The Last Rat of Theresienstadt (Gran Prix Award: Lalka też Człowiek Festival '18, KO Fest'19), Birkenstock Birkie and the Toes

Commercials, Puppetry Guild of Greater NY

Actor and Writer: Illuminutty webseries, Lady SketchFest and Rule Of (The Tank), slapstick cabaret (Dixon Place), Whether We Like It or Not (Mad River Festival Dell'Arte, The Tank, NO Fringe, CalArts)

Strictly Acting/VO: Jurassic World The Exhibition (Imagine Exhibitions), We Are All Tourists (Trusty Sidekick), Steeplechase (Hudson Guild), Tooth of Crime (Columbia Stages), Romeo and Juliet (LES Shakespeare); VO Archive 81

Training: MFA Physical Theater Dell'Arte International; ACT Summer Congress; The Guthrie Conservatory; UCB; Second City; Clowning: Ronlin Foreman, Aitor Bassauri (Spy Monkeys), Gabriel Levy and Zach Fine (Funny School of Good Acting, Fiasco)