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Directing credits include the Kennedy
Center Sondheim Celebration productions
of Sweeney Todd (Helen Hayes
Award for Outstanding Direction of a
Resident Musical) and Merrily We
Roll Along; the national tour of
Seussical: The Musical; the
world premieres of Douglas Carter
Beane’s Mondo Drama; at The
Drama Dept. and Alfred Uhry’s
Without Walls at the
Williamstown Theatre Festival; The
Smell of the Kill on Broadway and
at the Berkshire Theatre Festival;
The Rocky Horror Show at the
Circle in the Square (Tony Award, Drama
Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations –
Best Direction of a Musical); Paul
Rudnick’s Rude Entertainment and
Douglas Carter Beane’s The Country
Club (previously at Long Wharf
Theatre) at The Drama Dept.; They
All Laughed at Goodspeed Musicals;
and Newyorkers at Manhattan
Theatre Club (Outer Critics Circle
nomination – Outstanding Off Broadway
Musical, Drama Desk nomination for Best
Revue). Other credits include
Voices in the Dark at Broadway’s
Longacre Theatre; Light Up the
Sky at Williamstown Theatre
Festival; the American premiere of
What You Get and What You Expect
by Jean-Marie Besset at New York
Theatre Workshop; Paul Rudnick’s The
Most Fabulous Story Ever Told at
the Minetta Lane Theatre following a
sold-out run at NYTW; Working by
Stephen Schwartz at Long Wharf; the
revival of Redhead and the world
premiere of Lucky in the Rain at
Goodspeed Musicals, and L’il
Abner for City Center Encores.
Additional credits include the American
premiere of Communicating Doors
by Alan Ayckbourn at the Variety Arts
Theater; As Thousands Cheer at
the Drama Department and premieres of
two Paul Rudnick plays, and Mr.
Charles, Currently of Palm Beach at
Ensemble Studio Theatre. Other New York
credits include Jeffrey at the
Minetta Lane Theatre and WPA (also Los
Angeles and San Francisco); Bunny
Bunny at the Lucille Lortel
Theater; Claudia Shear’s Blown
Sideways Through Life at the Cherry
Lane Theater and NYTW; Das
Barbecu at the Minetta Lane; Anna
Deveare Smith’s Fires in the
Mirror at the Public Theater; Paul
Rudnick’s The Naked Eye, The
White Rose, Bella Belle of
Byelorussia, The Night Hank
Williams Died and Buzzsaw
Berkeley at the WPA; Dario Fo’s
Eve’s Diary/Story of the Tiger
and Dale Stein’s A Breath of Fresh
Air at NYTW; Portfolio and
Experts at Manhattan Punchline
and Richard Greenberg’s Neptune’s
Hips for the Ensemble Studio
Theatre Marathon.
Regional credits include Bunny
Bunny, Miss Evers’ Boys,
Lips Together Teeth Apart,
The Cocktail Hour and
Haikin at the Philadelphia
Theatre Company; The Naked Eye
at American Repertory Theatre; Nine
Armenians at the Intiman Theatre in
Seattle; I Hate Hamlet at the
Royal George in Chicago; Dario Fo’s
Story of the Tiger at Los
Angeles Theatre Company; The
Cocktail Hour at the Cincinnati
Playhouse and Spike Heel and the
Harrowing Hell at New York Stage &
Film.
Other projects include the new musical
Can’t Help Falling in Love and
Paul Rudnick’s Valhalla. He
received the Lucille Lortel Award for
Outstanding Direction of Fires in
the Mirror and Jeffrey, as
well as an OBIE for best direction.
Ashley has also been the recipient of
the Princess Grace Award statuette, The
Drama League Director Fellowship and an
NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. Mr. Ashley
directed the feature film of
Jeffrey and the American
Playhouse production of Blown
Sideways Through Life for PBS.
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