Arielle Beth Klein
Acting
Biography
Arielle Beth Klein (she/her) is a Jewish, queer, New York City-based actor, writer, and teaching artist. She has performed off-Broadway and regionally, notably in New Yiddish Rep's Drama Desk-nominated production of Death of a Salesman in Yiddish. Her TV/Film credits include "A Good Cop" (NTD Network), "The Red Shoe" (World Premiered at Oscar-qualifying Flickers RIIFF), and "PicMe" (Best Actress in a Short Award at Couch Film Festival). As a writer, Arielle's published solo play "My Shiksa Boyfriend" has been produced multiple times, most recently at the United Solo Theater Festival in 2022. Her short film "Tired Mind," which she wrote and starred in, garnered selections at eight film festivals in 2022. A lot of her written work centers around themes of Jewish identity, mental health advocacy, and spirituality. Arielle is an instructor at The Barrow Group Theater Company where she teaches acting and solo show writing where she trains with Seth Barrish ("The Old Man and the Pool" on Broadway) and Lee Brock. Arielle fell in love with solo show as a medium and works as a dramaturg, coach and director for storytellers in NYC and over Zoom. Most recently she directed the world premier of "Ballet Flats for Dinner" by Bridget McGuire at Second City in Chicago. Beyond her artistic pursuits Arielle is a dog mom to a senior chihuahua (you may have seen Niko on The Dodo!), an avid reader of thriller novels, and a terrible cook despite her mother's best attempt at passing down those skills. Connect with her on Instagram @ariellebethklein.
Known For
After ending a six year relationship, a well-behaved, Jewish, OBGYN decides to turn her brain off and her body on by exploring BDSM; instances of which are popping up in the most unusual places.
Good Girl
Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
Castles in the Sky
A short sci-fi about a young woman named Alice who is pressured into downloading a new social media app by a friend, but when the app starts to control her will she be able to escape or will she fall farther down the rabbit hole?
PicMe
Fearing that she's the last of her kind, Cora sets out to find her long lost sister in a dark kingdom that the world has forgotten.
Spiderlily
When struggling sci-fi novelist, Erin, goes home to visit her family for Passover she knows what to expect: an unsupportive family that wishes she would have taken a more "secure" job. When there, she must decided whether her family deserves to know a secret before they find out without her.
When It Pays
While fleeing their hometown during the Nazi invasion, Jewish teenagers Fanye and Rivkah are chased through the woods by an armed Nazi soldier and are forced to make life-and-death decisions.