Ashley Teague

Ashley Teague creates theater that uplifts the issues of our time and celebrates the human spirit. Her work connects with community in a deeply personal way and endeavors to push the boundaries of what that connection can achieve. Ashley is the founding Artistic Director of Notch Theatre Company and a recipient of the 2017 Embark Fellowship Grant for Social Innovation in Entrepreneurship from the Swearer Center for Public Service. While with Cornerstone Theater Company (CTC), she developed and led CTC’s Talk It Out series, which travels throughout California creating community-engaged theater to change public policy around the school-to-prison pipeline crisis. Prior to that she worked as a Producer for theatrical, creative content on films such as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days, Ed Zwick’s Love and Other Drugs, Tina Gordon Chism’s Peeples, and Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land. Recent directing credits include: CHQ Engagement Project Chautauqua Theatre Company, Invasion! Brown University, Side Show: The Musical PCPC, Romeo and Juliet Brown/ Trinity Rep, The Crucible Brown University, Bean Hollywood Fringe Festival (Best of), Jesus Hopped the A Train Lyric Theatre, Willful California State Capitol, Healthy Richmond East Bay Center for Performing Arts, Ajax Theater of War, Halfway Home Blank Theater. She recently assisted director Liesl Tommy and Sarah Rhul on the World Premiere production of Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical at Trinity Repertory Theater. www.ashteague.com