MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

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).