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WINTER 2012

January 11th through 15th: Don't miss Ashley as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth at the American Theatre of Actors. Click here for more information and to reserve tickets.

December 1: TED Talk! Ashley is directing a short Project Girl program which is part of TEDxWomen with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. Scroll to the bottom of the Press page and watch the video.

FALL 2011

November 30: Trafficked, a devised piece on global sex trafficking, devised by Project Girl Performance Collective and directed by Ashley is being debuted at the United Nation's ECPAT's 20th Anniversary Gala.

November 23: Project Girl is a featured performance at the United Nations for Secretary-General Ban ki-moon and former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet at the "Unite to End Violence Against Women" conference.

November 16 - 18: Ashley is on tour with Project Girl Performance Collective. We will be conducting GirlPower workshops and performing. Visit Project Girl Performance Collective's website for more details.

November 13: Ashley debuts two new short plays, "Riding in Cars with Hezbollah" and "The Best Little Whore in Texas" in Co-Op Theatre East's Radio COTE.

October: "Live from Pod 305", Ashley's short play is featured in Manhattan Theatre Source's Estrogenius Festival, October 26th through October 28th. Tickets available at www.estrogenius.org.

October: "Muzungu" by David Myers, produced by Ashley and Co-Op Theatre East debuts at Fourth Street Theatre. Tickets are available through Smarttix.

September: Co-Op Theatre East and Project Girl Performance Collective's "Ten Years Later: Voices from the Post 9/11 Generation Speak" co-directed by Ashley debuts at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (Playwrights Horizons) and is produced throughout the tri-state area. Read reviews and see press under "Press" section.

SUMMER 2011

August 11: Ashley booked a spot on the Onion News Network, Season 2- playing "Hailey Boyes", airing on the Independent Film Channel!

July 28th: Ashley's short play "Standing In Front of 9/11 Waiting for the End of the World" is featured in the BareKnuckle Theatre Festival at the Producer's Club. The cast features Robert A. K. Gonyo, Anna Savant and Tyrus Cucavac and is directed by Casey Cleverly.

"Live From Pod 305", written by Ashley will be featured in the 2011 Estrogenius Festival in October at the Manhattan Theatre Source and published in the 2011 Book of Estro.

Ashley is enrolled in Danny Talbott's Site Specific Directing Class at Primary Stages/ESPA. She will be creating theatre in public places throughout NYC.

June 24th: Project Girl Performance Collective performing at the White House

Ashley is featured in a trailer for the horror film, Evil Things. View it now.

SPRING 2011

Project Girl Performance Collective launches short film on the making of "Voices Without Borders: Project Girl Congo".

March 26th: Ashley will be attending Directors Lab North this June in Toronto.

March 25th: Project Girl Performance Collective is performing "GirlPower: Survival of the Fittest" at Pace University in the Student Union 8:00pm. This performance is free and open to the public.

March 18th: Co-Op Theatre East is presenting "Building Solidarity through Theatre" at Left Forum at Pace University - 3:00 pm .

March 3rd: Ashley is performing "Harvest" by Mira Ptacin in SWEET: Actors Reading Writers at Three Cups of Tea in the East Village, NYC.

March 1st: Project Girl Performance Collective is performing at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Conference

WINTER 2011

February 27th: Ashley filmed A Closer Look, paranormal television pilot in Pennsylvania.

February 21st: Project Girl Performance Collective performed at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Consultation Day.

January 28th: Co-Op Theatre East's production of Trojan Women Redux opens at the Looking Glass Theatre

January 18th: Read reviews of Ashley's work in Beyond Therapy.

January 14th: Check Ashley out as Charlotte Wallace in Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy! The show runs January 14th through 30th, 2011. Visit Porch Light Productions for ticket details!

January 5th: Ashley is featured on Liz Funk's blog "Coming of Age in A Crap Economy". Read the interview

ACTOR

Performing Credits

FILM

Evil Things                                        Concerned Citizen/Trailer                               Genesis Films
Sade's Choice Activist/Supporting                                             NYU MFA Thesis
A Very Good Job                              Maria / Lead    ZehlSteen Think Pound
Everybody France Now                   Wife/Lead                                                           ZehlSteen Think Pound
Super Freak!                                     Tracey / Lead                                                     NYU Short Film
Mother                                                Aunt / Supporting                                               Brooklyn College MFA Thesis

TELEVISION

Onion News Network Hailey Boyes/Supporting IFC Network

A Closer Look (Pilot) Paranormal Investigator/Supporting Emerald Cut Productions

Brain Kramp (Pilot)                           Ashley / Lead                                                   Comcast Cable
American Morning                            Self/ Interviewed by Solidad O'Brien            CNN/CNN World
MTV Global Summer-Lebanon    Self/ Documentary                                           MTVU
Fight For Your Rights- AIDS           Self / Documentary                                           MTV

THEATRE

Beyond Therapy Charlotte Porch Light Productions

New Play Reading Series                Various Roles                                                 Primary Stages
The Trojan Women                            Hecuba    Schimmel Center for the Arts
Do/Don't Do                                         Crazy Woman                                                 Co-Op Theatre East
The Vagina Monologues AngryVagina/Woman Who Made...    Kimmel Center
A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania                                                              440 Studios
The Laramie Project                           Various Characters Schaeberlie Studio
Cabaret                                                 Lulu                                                                   Staten Island Shakespeare Thr.
Ubu Rex                                               Queen Rosamund/Various Characters      Schaeberlie Studio
You Can't Take It With You    Essie Carmichael                                          Red Bank Theatre Company

RADIO and VOICE OVER

Wake Up Call News Reporter WBAI/Pacifica Network

WPUB Radio Station DJ / Show Host WPUB

Live From Pod 305 (Radio Play) Eze Martin/Lead Co-Op Theatre East Pod Cast

Standing In Front... (Radio Play Rachel/Lead Co-Op Theatre East Pod Cast

SPECIAL SKILLS

Sketch Comedy/Improvisational Comedy, Member of Think Pound sketch comedy group, 16 Years of Professional Dance Training and Performance (Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Competition Training), British/Irish/Southern Dialect, Arabic Language, Middle Eastern Studies, Card Carrying Member of the American Anthropological Association, Social Justice/Political Activist, Works well with animals and children, Birder and Naturalist, Photographer/Photojournalist, Cupcake Enthusiast, Ghost and Paranormal Hunter, X-Files trivia master, Valid Driver's License/US Passport, Award Winning Director/Playwright, Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Co-Op Theatre East (www.cooptheatreeast.org), Executive Director of the Project Girl Performance Collective (www.projectgirlperformancecollective.org)

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