Lola Arias (born 3 December 1976) is an Argentine writer, theatre, and film director known for her diverse creative pursuits spanning multiple artistic media.

[2][8][5] In collaboration with Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll, she contributed to several projects, including Chácara Paraíso (2007), Airport Kids (2008), and Ciudades Paralelas (2010).

[18][19][20] Melancholy and Demonstrations (Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2012) delves into Arias's mother's depression,[21] while The Art of Making Money (Stadttheater Bremen, 2013) confronts themes of fiction and compassion through the lens of beggars, prostitutes, and street musicians.

[23][2] Minefield (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2016) unites British and Argentinian veterans of the Falkland/Malvinas war,[24][25] while Atlas des Kommunismus (Maxim-Gorki Theater, Berlin, 2016) weaves together the stories of women from East Germany.

[26][27] What They Want to Hear (Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, 2018) reconstructs the predicament of a Syrian archaeologist entangled in German bureaucracy,[28][29] while Futureland (Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, 2019) involves unaccompanied minors who migrated to Germany.

[30][31][32] Ich bin nicht tot (Staatstheater Hannover and Theaterformen Festival, 2021) features individuals over sixty-five contemplating their societal roles amid the pandemic.

[51] In the field of visual arts and curating, she initiated My Documents, a lecture-performance series featuring artists from diverse backgrounds presenting their personal research.