Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Arne is an actor, writer, dancer, and director. His short films have played the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, where The Best Day of Our Lives screened in the “Best of Fest” program, Defy Film Festival, The Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, and on exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Online, they’ve been featured on Director’s Notes, NoBudge, where Garbage won a “Spirit of NoBudge” award, Vulture, NewNowNext, Film School Rejects, and Out Magazine.

As a dancer, Arne is best known for freaking out in Fitz and The Tantrums’ video The Walker. He can also be spotted in videos and shows for Peaches, Margaret Cho, Arcade Fire, Pharrell, Lydia Ainsworth, Kenzo's fashion film Club Ark Eternal (choreographed by Ryan Heffington), and in the final season of Justin Simien’s Dear White People and Andrew Dominik’s film Blonde.

He’s worked extensively in performance art and experimental theatre and has performed at The Ace Hotel, STARS, Non Plus Ultra, The Cavern Club, LACMA, O-Town House, Akbar, The Regent, Pieter Performance Space, Highways Performance Space, USC, Human Resources, CalArts, The Fonda, 18th Street Arts, PAM, LAX Arts, The Sweat Spot, Bootleg Theater, The Machine Project, and The Forum. Recent credits include Asher Hartman’s “The Mommy Leaks the Floor”, which premiered at New Theater Hollywood and was named a top 10 pick of the year by ArtForum, “The Intimacy of Crossing the Highway With Your Mouth Torn to Pieces” written and directed by Agnes Borinsky, which premiered at The Ford and was commissioned by Cornerstone Theater Company, “Open House” written and directed by Luna Izpisua Rodgriguez for the NOW Festival at Redcat and “The End is New”, a world premiere from Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff performing opposite Mia Barron also at Redcat. Most recently he was in “American Birds” written by Lucy Parks Urbano and directed by Dylan Frederick which premiered at franknews.

He graduated from the Gallatin School at New York University and has since trained at The Sweat Spot, The Groundlings, and with Marjorie Ballentine. He lives in Silver Lake.