Daria Miyeko Marinelli (they/she) is a playwright, screenwriter, and climate activist who tells stories about renegades, belonging, and new frontiers. Their plays include Beautiful Blessed Child, Ravenous, We are Samurai, cropt, this is what i chose no i’m not sorry and yes if you’d ask i’d do it again…, and Untameable.
Daria's original pilot is about eco-defenders who take down oil pumpjacks in the California West to get a more progressive candidate elected (The Black List’s NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship Finalist & The Sloan x Sundance Episodic Lab Finalist) and has developed an Ivy League x CIA TV Series with Hill District Media.
Daria’s theatrical work has been performed at La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, Atlantic Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Rites and Reasons Theatre, The VORTEX, and EST-LA, among others. Mx. Marinelli has developed work with Cirque du Soleil, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwright’s Realm, Fault Line Theatre, The New Group, Seven Devils Playwriting Conference, IAMA, and The Kennedy Center (MFA Playwrights Workshop and TYA/USA’s New Visions New Voices). They have been an artist-in-residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, twice at The New Harmony Project, Barn Arts Collective, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Stillwright.
Playwriting accolades include being a winner of The Ollie Award from The Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation, a Kilroy’s List writer, and a showcased writer at the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists. They have been a three-time Finalist and a three-time Semi-Finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist and two-time Semi-Finalist; a Finalist for the Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, the Leah Ryan Award, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, and Theater Mu’s New Eyes Festival, a Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and a New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominee. Daria also serves on the Board of Directors for The New Harmony Project and Fault Line Theatre.
Mx. Marinelli holds a BA with Honors from Brown University and an MFA in Playwriting from University of Texas at Austin. While based in LA, Daria is forever a New Yorker at heart.