Arabella Anderson is a Peabody Award winning and WGA Award nominated writer & director based in Los Angeles.

Her work explores gender, sexuality and class through the prism of genre. She loves female characters who are often overlooked; outsiders, monsters, criminals. Arabella coined the term “feminist pulp” as a way to describe her tone, blending together entertaining and commercial narratives with complex and layered characters.

Arabella has written and produced on television series such as CW’s Riverdale, Star on Fox, and Transparent on Amazon. She has also directed, written and produced short films and web-series that have premiered at various film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, Frameline, and Screamfest.

Currently, she is in post-production her third short film Mother Road at AFI’s presitigous DWW+ program (2026/2027 cycle.)

Arabella has guest lectured and spoken about her craft at USC, Columbia College Chicago, and Film Independent’s International Filmmakers Program.

Arabella has developed projects with HBO, Apple, Freeform, Anonymous, and Imagine. She is currently developing two television series and a feature film based on one of her short films.