Arielle is a playwright, teaching artist/facilitator and arts administrator based in Oakland, Ca. Over her 10-year career, Arielle has most worked most intensively as a teaching artist with Destiny Arts Center, a core-member of Theatre Without Borders and as a theatre practitioner throughout the U.S. and abroad. Arielle’s theatre work is rooted in peacemaking on both local and international levels. Arielle is the Artistic Director of The Love Balm Project, a Bay Area theatre workshop series and performance that explores the testimonies of local mothers who have lost children to systemic violence. Workshop and performance iterations of The Love Balm Project have been presented at or in partnership with 7Stages Theatre, Theatre of Yugen, The MilkBar, Eastside Arts Alliance, La Peña Cultural Center, San Francisco Playhouse The Triangle Lab (A joint program of Intersection for the Arts and Cal Shakes) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Arielle’s international theatre experience includes work in Senegal and East Africa. Arielle received her B.A. from Pomona College where she studied Theatre and Africana Studies.