Writing 

Ashley is most well known as the creator of the off-Broadway hit Trial directed by Lori Petty (Orange is the New Black, A League of Their Own) for which she won the WellLife Network award and a county commendation. The show is currently in pre production for a commercial NYC production with lead producer Fred Rohan-Vargas (Company, Parade). Ashley most recently won five BroadwayWorld Awards, including "Best Play" and "Best New Play or Musical" for different shows in different cities in the same year. Her work has been heralded by E!, MTV and Entertainment Weekly (among others). In addition to being a Broadway ghost writer, Ashley’s work has been produced/developed at New World Stages, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, A.R.T., La MaMa and more, as well as in Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Austin, South Africa and Australia. Her play Snow received a NYIT Award Nomination for Best New Play and was a semi finalist for the Shakespeare's New Contemporaries award. Her off-Broadway play The Opposite of Love recently had its L.A. premiere produced by Tony winning producer Neil Gooding (Sunset Boulevard). She is a two time bestselling novelist for The Spindle and Blank Paige (currently under consideration for a streaming adaptation.) She has written extensively for film and T.V., including Silver Moon (Fox), Ophelia, Descending (SeaStone), and more.

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Ashley was recently selected as one of the writers to have their work included (along with that of Shakespeare and other major authors) in collaboration with NASA on the Griffin Lander’s Moon Capsule which will remain on the lunar surface to archive and preserve Earth’s literary artistic achievements. 

Ashley is an Artistic Associate at NY Rep. She was 2018/2019 Artist in Residence at the Access Theater Company and was 2011/2012 Artist in Residence at Dreamcatcher Entertainment. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, LPTW, LMDA  and MENSA.  She has taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Columbia holds a BFA from NYU Tisch, and has trained at the RSC and National Theatre.

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"If storytelling—as put by Griffin—is a dying art, then she herself is in the vanguard of its resuscitation...Owing to a rich heritage of stories past and present, Griffin’s work reflects the best elements of storytellers past and combines them in her own style (with) just enough detail for the imaginations of her audience to take over." - Paper Tiger Reviews

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"Within the subtext of Ashley Griffin's dark stories of struggle and survival is one of the most surprisingly cathartic voices about mortality and immortality." - Producer Mike Rinaldi 

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