Ariel Sibert is a dramaturg, teacher, producer of film and performance, and critic. She works with the Brooklyn-based theater 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 Theater 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 2021 Biennial, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, Ars Nova, the Connelly Theater, the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Exponential Festival, Dixon Place, Spectrum Arts, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Theater Mitu, among other venues.

Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Quinnipiac University and is completing her doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen (née Yale) School of Drama.

In the past, she was the Associate Editor of the journal Theater (Duke UP), a visiting advisor for the Department of Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art, and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Theater Studies at Yale College and in the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. Her writing and interviews have been published in TDR, The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Theater, American Theater, 3Views, and Text and Presentation. She holds a BA in Art History with Honors from Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.