Ari is a facilitator and collaborative theatre-maker with over 10 years experience co-creating and supporting theatre organizations. Ari is passionate about participatory and multi-disciplinary theatre that celebrates the identities of the communities it is created by and for. 

Ari co-founded the still-running Interactive Theatre Society at SUNY Fredonia (BFA Acting, English Minor '10), Nomad Theatre Company in Buffalo, NY (where Ari is from originally), and served on the artistic committee of the Bradley Playhouse in Putnam, CT for two years. Ari has experience as a traveling director/teacher with Life On Campus, an organization that uses theatre to educate incoming college students about some of the scenarios they may face in their first year, and with an after school theatre program for middle-schoolers with PTSD to build social confidence. Ari co-founded and worked as an actor, writer, producer, and co-creator with Fracture Films, whose short film Recalling, filmed with the bare minimum during the first summer of the Covid-19 pandemic, won Audience Choice the first time Lift-Off NY Film Festival went virtual. Ari is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and holds an MA in Applied Theatre from the CUNY School of Professional Studies. Ari is currently the Program Administrator of the CAT Youth Theatre which provides free theatre opportunities for young people to create original plays from their own ideas. 

Ari is grateful to be part of The Seeing Place community which has already expanded their idea of what theatre can be. They can’t wait to see what comes next!