Ariel Sibert

BA, Princeton University. MFA, Yale University, David Geffen School of Drama. A dramaturg, producer, and critic of film, theatre, and performance, Sibert is the resident dramaturg of the queer theatre and media company Fake Friends, whose play Circle Jerk was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2021 and the winner of an Obie Award for Digital/Hybrid Theatre in 2023. Her work as a producer and dramaturg with Fake Friends and artists, including Hito Steyerl, Sara Cwynar, Savaş Boyraz, Ayham Ghraowi, Evan Yionoulis, and Shadi Ghaheri, has been presented at the Park Avenue Armory, the Performa Biennial, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, Ars Nova, Connelly Theater, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Exponential Festival, Dixon Place, Spectrum Arts, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Theater Mitu, among other venues. Sibert has taught theatre studies as an assistant professor at Quinnipiac University and as a teaching fellow at the David Geffen School of Drama and Yale University. She also served as associate editor of the journal Theater (Duke University Press) and a visiting critic of performance at the Yale School of Art. Her writing and interviews have been published in TDR, The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Theater, American Theatre, 3Views, and Text and Presentation. Current research examines screen-based subjectivities and performances of self and cybernetic dramaturgies in 20th-century performance. SLC, 2024–

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