Arden is a founding faculty member and the Director of the Theater Program at the Sequoyah High School in Pasadena, CA; the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of MACH 33: The Caltech Festival of New Science-Driven Plays; and an Instructor in Theater at the New York Film Academy-LA. She is also a member of Caltech Playreaders and the Theatre 100 Collective. Arden received her PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, and MAs in Theater Arts and Literature from Villanova University. Arden has been teaching at high schools and universities since 1994, and she loves introducing students to theater and helping them come alive as artists and change-makers.
Recent directing credits include Chicago by Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb; Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill; The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 by John Bishop; Carrie by Dean Pitchford, Michael Gore, and Lawrence Cohen; The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 by John Bishop; Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare; Radium Girls by D. W. Gregory; Big Fish by Andrew Lippa and John August; Peter and the Starcatcher by Rick Elice, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, Antigone X by Paula Cizmar, Almost, Maine by John Cariani, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace, and Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht.
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