Ariel Sayegh is a writer-director exploring infamous characters, outrageous real-life stories, and control freaks who've lost all control. She has developed screenplays with New Line Cinema, Seven Bucks Productions, 3311 Productions, Dichotomy Creative Group, CrossCheck Studios, and Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America West.

Ariel broke into the industry with her screenplay FRENEMY, which landed on the annual Black List. The potential of the script (and its comedic take on Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton's feud) drew solo coverage in W, Vice, Dazed, and PAPER Magazine, which dubbed it "one of the buzziest entries on the list." Previously, Ariel won the $10,000 grand prize at the Bluecat Screenplay Competition. She was also named to the 2025 Women's List, a Final Draft's Big Break Competition finalist (top 3), and a 2x Script Pipeline finalist (top 5 & 10), and an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist. As a director, Ariel has won multiple grants and awards, including funds to live and shoot a documentary in Beijing, which won a Chinese Academy Award.

Ariel graduated magna cum laude from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, which awarded her a full-tuition Trustee Scholarship. As the first student admitted to both their Writing for Screen & Television and Film Production programs, she won the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Writing and the Marguerite Roberts Screenwriting Award. There, she gave a TEDx talk on storytelling, which won't be linked because she was 20 and naive and desperately needed a blow-out that day. Today, that ambition drives Ariel to defy her wheat allergy and eat copious amounts of penne.

Website: https://www.arielsayegh.com/