Ashley Wren Collins (she/her)
Choreographer
Ashley Wren Collins is a director, choreographer, producer, author and actor.
Select list of NYC directing/choreography credits: short plays at Theater Breaking Through Barriers; The Bedbug (Medicine Show Theatre); world premieres: Gay Boy (Dream Up Festival, Queerly Festival, Frigid Festival), I’m Mindful…of My Anxiety (Medicine Show Theatre), Flak House: The Musical (also choreographer) for La Muse Venale at Actors Temple Theatre, The Chaos Theory of Now at Dixon Place, Land Grab for Culture Project. Upcoming: As choreographer, Foxy Ladies Love Boogie 70s Explosion! at The Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles.
Director/producer on award-winning short film, i only miss you when i’m breathing, starring country music singer/songwriter Phil Vassar. Co-creator/choreographer/producer: Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood (FringeNYC, Midtown International Theater Festival, PIT Improv, LA Comedy Festival, others). Producer/actor on feature film: Chasing Taste, “Best Comedy” winner of the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival, 2014 Manhattan Film Festival, now available on Amazon. Teaching: Since 2010, director of new works at NYU for MFA and BFA candidates in Dramatic Writing.
Author: several books; recent – Along Comes the Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits (Rare Bird, 2020). Recent acting: Zero Day starring Robert De Niro. BA in Theatre Arts/English with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. MFA, American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Recipient: Edward F. Albee Foundation fellowship. Participant: 2015 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Member: Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, NY Women in Film & Television, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
