Ash

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Ash

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Ash (they/she) has a background in both theatre and music, and they are an active composer, choral arranger, songwriter, sound designer, and music director for choir and theatre. As a queer, non-binary, Persian, and hard-of-hearing artist, she values storytelling as a means of connection, revelation, and celebration.

Their theatrical credits include productions with Portland Center Stage (Dracula: a Feminist Revenge Fantasy Really, Choir Boy, tick, tick… BOOM!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Macbeth), SpeakEasy Stage (English), Lower East Side Shakespeare Co. (The Words Will Come, BEE), Oregon Children’s Theatre, Corrib Theatre, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Milagro Theatre (where they won a Drammy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for ¡O Romeo!), Post5 Theatre, and Portland Actor’s Ensemble (where they won an Outdoor Shakespeare Festival Award in 2012 for Best Sound Design for Twelfth Night).

Ash is the former artistic director to Transpose PDX, a non-profit choral arts organization serving the trans, non-binary, and GNC community, and her choral works and arrangements have been performed by various choirs across the states, most popular with GALA Choruses like Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Bridging Voices, Transpose PDX, ANNA Crusis Feminist Choir, NYCGMC, and more. She grew up in Portland, OR and currently resides in NYC. www.MusicByAsh.com

Activist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor