A’raelle Flynn-Bolden (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, actor, and cultural strategist committed to building liberated spaces through storytelling, performance, and community care.
Raised in Los Angeles on the unceded lands of the Chumash, Tongva, Gabrieliño, and Kisch peoples, her work centers the experiences of Black women and femmes, uplifts untold histories, and champions joy and justice as creative practices.
As a writer, A’raelle explores themes of historical recovery, ancestral memory, and embodied liberation across genres. Her creative work—supported and developed by institutions such as Skylight Theatre, IAMA Theatre Company, Ammunition Theatre and Geffen Playhouse—aims to disrupt erasure and cultivate space for Black interiority, ritual, and reclamation.
As an arts administrator, advocate, and activist, A’raelle brings over a decade of experience designing and managing equity-focused cultural programs across Los Angeles. She has held leadership roles at institutions such as Center Theatre Group and BroadStage, curating public programs, coordinating large-scale community events, and facilitating staff-wide training in disability justice, gender equity, and racial accountability.
She is a Co-Founder of BLKLST, a collective of Black artists and cultural workers committed to disrupting anti-Blackness in the arts; through organizing, advocacy, and cultural visioning, the group has helped reimagine arts institutions across the city and co-authored the Los Angeles Anti-Racist Theatre Standards (LAARTS).
A’raelle is also a trained actor, having earned her BFA from CalArts, with a practice grounded in presence, intuition, and a deep belief in performance as a tool for transformation. Whether onstage or off, she brings care, clarity, and rigor to every creative process she enters.
Across all her work, A’raelle is guided by a reverence for collective memory, a commitment to cultural equity, and the belief that art—when practiced with intention—can be a powerful force for healing and liberation.
WRITING
A'raelle Flynn-Bolden's writing CV reflects a dedicated focus on historical fiction and socially engaged storytelling, with works that center marginalized voices, illuminate erased histories, and champion themes of care, community, and resistance.
