AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under their belt including the historical reimagining of the life of Sally Hemmings BLACK GIRL IN PARIS (2020), the ancestral reckoning play A WALLESS CHURCH (2019), and many others. AriDy creates out of the vehement belief that creating a future in which marginalized peoples are free requires a radical imagination. Their tales are offerings intended to function as small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping, created by and for black femmes.  As a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts at NYU, a beneficiary of the Musical Theatre Factory Inaugural MAKERS cohort, a fellow of the Emerging Writer’s Group at the Public Theatre and the Horizon Theatre’s Black Women Speak Cohort, a recipient of the Live and In Color June Bingham commission, and a member of Playwrights Center Core Writers, they have been inordinately privileged to share the workings of their imagination among a vast array of inspiring and supportive artists of various radical backgrounds throughout the country.

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