Ariel Sibert is a dramaturg, producer of film and performance, and a critic. She is a founding member and house dramaturg of 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/by the New Group, the Park Avenue Armory, the Performa 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.

Currently, she teaches dramaturgy to MFA students at Sarah Lawrence College while completing her doctorate in Dramaturgy at the Yale School of Drama.

Ongoing + Upcoming: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, theater, Fake Friends (read more), showing May-June 2025 at the Alice Griffin Theatre at Signature Center NY, NY. Invasive Species/The Eye of the Mountain, film/installation/artistic research, Savaş Boyraz, ongoing, Stockholm, Sweden. Original writings on digital theater and dramaturgical research published in Circle Jerk and This American Wife, by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley with Ariel Sibert, Cat Rodríguez, and Rory Pelsue, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2026.

Her writing and interviews have been published in TDR, The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Theater, 3Views, American Theater, and the anthology Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice (ed. Charles O’Malley, Routledge: 2024). She holds a BA in Art History from Princeton University and her MFA in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama.

In the past, she taught theater history, script analysis, and playwriting to undergraduates at Quinnipiac University. She was also 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.