
Ash (they/she)
They/Them
Ash (they/she)
They/Them
Biography
Ash (they/she) grew up in Portland, OR and currently resides in New York City. They have a background in both theatre and music, and they are an active composer, choral arranger, playwright, songwriter, sound designer, and music director for choir and theatre. They are queer, non-binary, Persian, hard of hearing, and a quintessential virgo. She values storytelling as a means of connection, revelation, and celebration.
Ash is the former artistic director of Transpose PDX, a non-profit choral arts organization serving the trans and non-binary community, and her choral works and arrangements have been performed globally by various choirs, most popular with GALA Choruses like Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, NYCGMC, Bridging Voices, ANNA Crusis Feminist Choir, and more.
Credits for music direction and sound design include productions with Portland Center Stage (Dracula: a Feminist Revenge Fantasy Really, Choir Boy, tick, tick… BOOM!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Macbeth), Artists Repertory Theatre (Sapience), Bag&Baggage (Beginnings & Endings), Between Us Theatre Co. (EGG; Velvet Rage; Texas Gothic), SpeakEasy Stage (English), Lower East Side Shakespeare Co. (The Words Will Come, BEE), Fuse Theatre Ensemble (Crumbs; Magnetic Electric), Milagro Theatre (2015 Drammy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for ¡O Romeo!), and Portland Actors Ensemble (2012 Outdoor Shakespeare Festival Award for Best Sound Design for Twelfth Night).
As a writer, they are currently developing Crumbs (musical), This Side of the Door (musical), Move-Bend-Fall (short play trilogy), Magnetic Electric (play by Mikki Gillette with music by Ash), The Dark Stuff (play by Mikki Gillette with music by Ash), and other projects. Ash is a participant in the National Queer Theater 2025 Criminal Queerness Studio.
Note: Ash does not use a last name personally or professionally.
Professional Experience
- Regional
- Education
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
- Seattle/Pacific NW
Interested in touring?
- No
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Vocal Director and/or Choral Prep
- Music Assistant
- Songwriter
- Vocal Arranger
- Music Contractor/Coordinator
- Sound Designer/Composer
- Other
My Instruments
- Piano
- Voice
Software
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- Sibelius
- QLab
- Other
Affiliations
- ASCAP
- THE DRAMATISTS GUILD
- MAESTRA