Ariel de Man
Theater Studies
Instructor
Rich Building, Room 225A
404-312-9871
Ariel de Man is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Out Of Hand Theater. Out Of Hand Theater has been named Atlanta's "Best New Company" (AJC 2001), Atlanta's "Best Theatrical Mad Scientists" (Creative Loafing 2003), and one of "A Dozen Young American Companies You Need to Know" (American Theatre Magazine 2004). Out Of Hand has been featured in Variety, Back Stage, Theater Journal and TheaterForum, and received a New Generations: Future Audiences award in 2007. With Out Of Hand, Ariel has developed 30 Below, HELP!, Meds (Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top 10 Plays of 2007, Sunday Paper Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Design 2007), Lab Coats, The VD Show, Stadium 360, and Hominid, directed and acted in 30 Below and Nobody Here But Us Chickens, acted in Stadium 360, Meds, HELP!, Cartoon, Live Nude Bouffons and The VD Show, and directed Big Love (Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of 2003), Alcestis, Miss Julie, Indiscretions (Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best of 2001), and Hominid. Other directing credits include Jersey City, Pillars of Society and Scenes from Baal for Theater Emory, Miklat for Jewish Theatre of the South and Vive La Fontaine and Les Precieuses Ridicules for Theatre du Reve. She also associate directed Back to Methuselah for Theater Emory and Dissident for Theatre du Reve. At Theater Emory Ariel has also directed staged readings of The Man Died for the National Black Arts Festival 2000, Two Shakespearean Actors and Next Year in Jerusalem. Acting credits include Dottie in Killer Joe at Actor's Express, Linda in The Left Hand Singing at Arkansas Repertory and at Jewish Theatre of the South, Little Girl in Tomato Plant Girl at Geva Theatre and Debbie in The Real Thing at Theatrical Outfit.
Ariel holds a BA in Theater and French, summa cum laude, from Emory University, where she received the Lewis Sudler Prize in the Arts and the Friends of Theater Emory Most Valuable Collaborator Award in 1998. She currently teaches part-time in the Theater Studies department at Emory. Ariel is a 2004 Finalist for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, and a winner of the Loridans Artist Encouragement Award 2009.
