Fabiola Arias (she/her) is a Director, Dramaturg, Producer and Creative, originally from Panama and based in New York City. 

Her work centers around the development of new plays and on building long-term relationships with playwrights, supporting projects as they grow, change, and reach their fullest potential. She leads collaborative and joyful processes where embracing exploration and uncertainty is always encouraged and where saying “I don’t know” is never a bad thing.

She is interested in storytelling that moves between the real and the imaginary, in multilingual works, and translation in a theatrical setting. She is very interested in exploring how language and cultural barriers change the way we absorb information and affect our relationships to other people. Drawing inspiration from painting, music, dance, literature, and other artistic traditions, she creates work that is bold, curious, playful and unafraid to take up space.

She has worked and directed with organizations such as INTAR, Signature Theatre, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, WP Theatre, Repertorio Español, Thalia Spanish Theatre, The Tank, The Chain, and Fordham University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Fordham University at Lincoln Center with BA in Theatre, concentration in Directing, and a minor in Business Administration. 

As a creative, Fabiola is committed to creating spaces where artists have real opportunities to develop new work across languages and disciplines and to fostering the kinds of collaborations and artistic communities that allow both artists and their work to flourish.