Ash's theatre directing work is seen on tour throughout the United States and across the world.
Selected Directing Credits
New York: This Play is Native Made (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Primary Stages and Governors Island); Raw Thought (Dixon Place); Embodi(ED) (HERE); Parthenogenesis (NY International Fringe Festival); Riding in Cars with Hezbollah (Culture Project- IMPACT Festival); 9mm America (Robert Moss Theater - 14 PCTF Award Nominations and Winner of "Outstanding Production"); Trafficked (2012 Vanessa Redgrave Theater- 11 PCTF Award Nominations and Winner of "Outstanding Direction" and 20th Anniversary ECPAT Gala at United Nations); "The GirlPower Trilogy" - Girl's Liberation Front (2012), GirlPower: Survival of the Fittest (2010), and GirlPower: Voices of a Generation (2009) all at the NY International Fringe Festival; Decadent Acts (Robert Moss Theatre, 2 PCTF Award Nominations, Winner of "Planet Activist Award"); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Kraine Theater); Documentary (Gene Frankel Theatre and Brecht Forum); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Pace University); Johnny Got His Gun (Pace University, Adaptor and Director); Ivan's Way Out (Samuel French Play Festival).
International: The Waiting Room (ASHTAR Youth International Theatre Festival); Ascension (ASHTAR Youth International Theatre Festival); Under One Sun (Bosnian Cultural Center); Girl Be Heard: Across Borders ("Ending Sexual Violence In Conflict Global Summit" in London); Performance segments at TEDxWomen (introduced by Jane Fonda) and TEDxTeachersCollege at Columbia University.
US Regional and National Tour: Girl Be Heard: Congo at The White House (hosted by Michelle Obama), Mothers, and Daughters (Chicago Theater, sponsored by UN Women's Foundation); Next to Normal (Porch Light Productions), Girl Power: Voices of Our Generation (New Jersey State Theatre)
Film: Flatten the Curve; Rapture; Stage Left (digital documentary series); Inner Woman (music video); Rapids (music video)
Recognition, Awards, and Fellowships: Drama League First Stages Residency (2019)/ League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Visionary Award (2013) / Outstanding Overall Production of a Play and Planet Activist Award for 9mm America at PCTF (2013) / TED Talk entitled "Give it up for Rush Limbaugh" at Columbia University’s TEDxTeacher’s College (2012) / Winner of "Outstanding Direction of a Play" for Trafficked, PCTF (2012) / TEDxWomen performance introduced by Jane Fonda (2011)/ LUNA BAR’s National "Outstanding Production Award" for The Vagina Monologues (2006)
Ash has been an organizer of the V-Day Campaign since 2004 and has directed numerous productions of The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer. In 2006, she received the national LUNA Bar Award for Production Excellence of The Vagina Monologues.
She is an alumna of BAM's Professional Development Program, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics - EMERGENYC, American Theater Wing's Springboard NYC and member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Old Vic/New Voices and Civilian's Field Research Team, and NY Women in Film and Television