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Ariel Sayegh

Screenwriters Lab

2026-2027 Fellow

Ariel Sayegh

Mrs. Rosenberg

Sexism. Communism. Antisemitism. And the atomic bomb. Mrs. Rosenberg tells the messy story of Ethel Rosenberg, half of the Jewish American couple who were sentenced to death for “spying for the Soviet Union” in 1951.

Ariel Sayegh writes about control freaks who’ve lost all control and the chaotic relationship between public perception and self-worth. A grand prize winner of Script Pipeline and the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, her work has been spotlighted on the Annual Black List and in W, VICE, Dazed, and PAPER Magazine. Ariel was the first student ever admitted to both the Screenwriting and Production programs at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she received a full-tuition Trustee Scholarship, the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, and the Marguerite Roberts Screenwriting Award.