ashley marinaccio - director, playwright
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Photo by Jody Christopherson
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ASHLEY MARINACCIO is a theatre director who creates work that challenges the status quo. She is dedicated to documenting the socio-political issues that define our times. Ashley is a League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Women's Visionary Award recipient for her artistic direction of Girl Be Heard, a theatre company that brings global issues affecting girls center stage by empowering young women to tell their stories. She's a TED speaker. Her theatrical work has been seen off-Broadway, at TED conferences, The White House, The Apollo, United Nations and on tour throughout the United States and Europe. Her work has received critical acclaim from The NY Times, New Yorker, Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, Ebony, NY Press, Time Out NY, Backstage, Show Business and has been featured in segments on Buzzfeed, NBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, MTV, VH1, and NY1. Ashley has traveled extensively throughout the world as an artist, researcher, and teacher.
Selected directing credits include: The Waiting Room (co-director/ASHTAR International Theatre Festival, Palestine), Riding in Cars with Hezbollah (playwright/director; Culture Project), Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival and IMPACT Festival, Embodied (HERE); Parthenogenesis (2015), Girl's Liberation Front (2012), GirlPower: Survival of the Fittest (2010) and GirlPower: Voices of a Generation (2009) in the NY International Fringe Festival; 9mm America (2013, Outstanding Production), Trafficked (2012, Outstanding Direction) and Decadent Acts (2010, Planet Activist) at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity; My Name is Rachel Corrie (Kraine Theatre), Documentary: A Suicide Narrative (playwright/director -- Gene Frankel Theatre and Brecht Forum). Regional: Next to Normal (Porch Light Productions). Her work has been seen at the Apollo Theater, New Jersey State Theater, United Nations and at the White House. She has directed numerous initiatives within the V-Day Campaign and received the national LUNA Bar Award for Production Excellence for The Vagina Monologues. Currently, Ashley is working on her Ph.D. in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include exploring theatre practices in war zones, applications of theatre in social justice movements, politics and performance in times of crisis, community-based theatre, intersections between anthropology and theatre, and documentary theatre. Ashley is co-founder/founding artistic director of Girl Be Heard and co-founder/director of Co-Op Theatre East. She is an alumna of the BAM/Kennedy Center's Professional Development Program, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics - EMERGENYC, American Theatre Wing's - SpringboardNYC, and member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Old Vic/New Voices and Civilian's Field Research Team. Ashley holds her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and BA in theatre directing and sociology/anthropology with minors in women/gender and Middle Eastern from Pace University. She is a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. Currently, Ashley is a faculty member at Pace University's School of Performing Arts and Hunter College.
NEXT TO NORMAL, Photo by Ashley Marinaccio
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