• -director of mrs. ashwood’s home for lost and wandering mothers (and the children they leave behind) by gina femia, in development with breaking the binary theatre

    -director of what we talk about when we talk about the homeless by adi eshman @ the samuel french oob festival (selected finalist)

    -associate director of the bedwetter by sarah silverman, joshua harmon, and adam schlesinger, directed by anne kauffman @ arena stage

    -associate/restaging director of her story by julia wolfe, directed by anne kauffman @ the kennedy center

    -associate director of fire in my mouth by julia wolfe, directed by anne kauffman @ the edinburgh international festival

    -assistant director of williamsburg by tom kitt, marcy heisler, and jason katims, directed by rebecca taichman, in development with mcc theater

    -associate director of fiddler on the roof by jerry bock, sheldon harnick, and joseph stein, directed by mark s. hoebee @ paper mill playhouse

    -new work in development by francisco j. núñez and yuka honda for the young people’s chorus of nyc

    -new play in development with t mitsock

    -new musical in development with jacob ben-shmuel

    -new play in development with alle mims

    -2024 brooklyn poets fellow

“born to two lesbian mothers in the late 20th century via smuggled fertility drugs from mexico and an anonymous sperm donor, storytelling seems to have deeply embedded itself in my life from the very start…”

ash (they/she) is a trans/nonbinary director & creative with a focus in new work.

the stories they are inspired to explore are often rooted in queerness, the transformative powers of grief, and navigating intersectional identities within a modern and mythical america.

portrait by matthew murphy