Arianne MacBean is a writer, educator, and Artistic Director of The Big Show Co. - an LA-based dance-theater group. She has presented work in San Francisco at ODC, and in Los Angeles at The Ford, Skirball Cultural Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Highways Performance Space, and REDCAT. She danced for Meredith Monk, Tere O’Connor, Vic Marks, and Paul Taylor.

MacBean received the 2019-20 Semi Finalist MAP Fund Award, the 2018-19 Cultural Trailblazer Award and the 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence Grant from City of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as the 2016-17 & 2017-18 California Arts Council Veterans Initiative in the Arts grant. MacBean is known for her work with diverse populations and community-based performance initiatives. She facilitates Memory Writing & Movement Workshops for U.S. military veterans and women in recovery. She was the Director of the Dance Program at Oakwood Secondary School for eighteen years, and was Adjunct Faculty at Glendale Community College, Pasadena City College and Cal State Long Beach. MacBean holds a BA in Dance from UCLA and Double MFA in Dance & Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She recently graduated with an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and received a Certificate in Somatic Psychotherapies and Practices from Antioch University. She is currently a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist/Somatic Psychotherapist at Synergy Somatic Psychotherapy in Pasadena, CA.