Arianna Wentworth is a queer multi-hyphenate story-teller and performer who is just thrilled to be here.

Arianna has a long history of theater and musical theater experience. Before she had emerged from the woods of New Hampshire, Arianna began her theater career at Conant High School, notably playing Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, and the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. 

Arianna’s high school career included her work with the community company Project Shakespeare, where she developed a strong love and understanding of Shakespeare through various roles, such as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Banquo in Macbeth, and Stephano in The Tempest, to name a few. In 2018 Arianna performed with Project Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dell Theater in Stratford Upon Avon and Shakespeare’s Schoolhouse as Friar Lawrence and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet.

Arianna has experience with writing, directing, and devising. She has co-authored and co-directed the one act plays So You’re Dead— Now What?, The Gas Man and The Paranormalers in addition to numerous skits. 

Arianna is a student at Hofstra University in NY currently pursuing a BFA in Theater Arts with a concentration in performance, in addition to a minor in English and Creative Writing. At university Arianna developed her industry skills through her work for the department’s PR team, the scene shop, and the costume maintenance crew. Arianna has received training from Robert Westley for red nose and has been certified proficient with preference in unarmed stage combat by the Society of American Fight Directors as of April 2022. 

Throughout her college career Arianna has been working on various writing projects spanning from plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Arianna’s poetry has been published in the Fall 2020 and Spring 2020 issues of Font, Hofstra’s poetry and arts magazine. Arianna is  hard at work with her writing projects, currently drafting a children’s book and a one act play. 

Arianna’s theater career at Hofstra includes a variety of roles. In 2019 she played Helene in Spectrum Player’s Significant Other, directed Rebecca Wilson. In the fall of 2020 Arianna played Doody in Masquerade’s It’s the Word, Songs from Grease! and Victor Velasco in Hofstra University’s Barefoot in the Park, directed by Rod Gomez. In the spring of 2021, Arianna developed her skills on camera as Panope in Royston Coppenger’s online performance of Phaedra. In the fall of 2021, Arianna revisited the wonderful world of Shakespeare in Royston Coppenger’s Macbeth as a witch. Arianna honed her physical comedy skills in her performances as Officer Smith in The Three Penny Opera, directed by Cindy Rosenthal and Beatrice in A Giddy Thing, a one hour commedia dell'arte rendition of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Jennifer Hart. 

Arianna is currently working on numerous projects for her final semester at university. She is playing Hamlet in Hamletmachine, directed by Harrison Campbell. In addition to this, she is acting in Rowan Hladik's project "Rolling with the Punches," a fantasy short film inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.

She looks forward to her final semester at university and all the wonderful things waiting for her on and off the stage after graduation. Thank you for your interest!