is a director and theatre-maker whose work lives at the intersection of immersive storytelling, new play development, and historical memory. With a foundation in rigorous dramaturgy and a visual imagination trained across devised, text-based, and site-specific forms, she creates productions that ask audiences not just to watch — but to reckon.

Her approach is rooted in place and time. She is drawn to new works and living writers, to stories that haven't yet found their full theatrical form, and to canonical texts that have more to say than their standard productions allow. Whether building immersive experience from oral histories, developing an original script through close collaboration with a playwright, or finding a sharp conceptual frame for a musical, she brings the same discipline: a strong visual logic, spatial intention, and a process centered on the actors doing the work.

She is the founder and artistic director of Infinite Variety Productions, a Bronx-based nonprofit dedicated to amplifying unknown stories from women's history in non-traditional spaces. Over more than a decade of continuous programming, IVP has mounted productions Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and on international tour in Italy and Australia — alongside community-rooted work at the Bronx Music Heritage Center and beyond.

Her most celebrated work, In Their Footsteps, was created from oral histories of five American women who served in the Vietnam War. The stage production has toured internationally; the radio adaptation was broadcast on NPR and received a 2025 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. Excavating the Rising Stars, her immersive work drawn from interviews with eight women archaeologists involved in a groundbreaking and controversial excavation in South Africa, sold out its Bronx premiere and continues to develop.

Her recent expansion into film — with Still., selected for the 2024 New York City Indie Theatre Film Festival — reflects an ongoing curiosity about how stories find the right container. Ash holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

She is currently seeking projects in new play development, narrative musicals with a fresh conceptual frame, and experimental approaches to the classical repertoire — particularly Chekhov. Ash facilitates workshops in oral history theatre; sense memory; history of Documentary Theatre past, present and future; and interview-based monologue creation for organizations including Veterans Poetic Theatre Company, Florida Thespians Festival, and Onstage Festival (Italy).