Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson

Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson (she/her) is a theater maker and educator who specializes in new play development, interview-based theatre, and Shakespeare adaptation. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and a BA from NYU Gallatin. For Fiasco: Associate Director, Fiasco Theater’s Pericles directed by Ben Steinfeld (Without a Net and Classic Stage Company) and developmental readings of The Verge by Susan Glaspell, directed by Jessie Austrian, and on staff as Fiasco’s Community Engagement Manager. In other directing projects, Ashley has worked most recently with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Series, NYU, Kinship Theatre Collective, and Andy’s Summer Playhouse. As an educator, she is on the faculty of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Fiasco Theater, NYU’s Program in Educational Theatre, and Adelphi University’s Theatre Department. Ashley is a member of the performing ensembles of the Verbatim Performance Lab and Spellbound Theatre. In all her other time, she is a parent, a spouse, a baker, a romance novel aficionado, and lucky to call both Brooklyn, NY and Altadena, CA home.