Theatre
Listen below to a few select recordings and clips.
From a 2013 workshop production of CRUMBS, the musical. Music and lyrics by Ash.
Performances by Britt Harris and Carson Cook.
Theatre C.V.
Current/Upcoming
Magnetic Electric (play with music, staged reading), Composer and Music Director, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, 6/2024
Past
The Lark & the Nightingale (play), Sound Designer, Oregon Fringe Festival, 4/2024
Texas Gothic (play), Sound Designer, Theatre for the New City, 4/2024
Performance Troupe Inaugural Event (devised play), Sound Designer, International Girls Ensemble, 2/2024
The Words Will Come (play, workshop), Composer and Sound Designer, Lower East Side Shakespeare Co., 2/2024
Sovereignty Hymns (dramatic cantata), Music Director, Rattlestick Productions, 1/2024
Dracula, a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really (play), Sound Designer, Portland Center Stage, 12/2023
Cinderella Boy (musical theatre, 29-hour reading), Music Director, A.R.T.'s Spaces@520, 11/2023
BEE (play), Composer and Sound Designer, Lower East Side Shakespeare Co., 11/2023
Crumbs (musical theatre, staged reading), Composer and Music Director, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, 6/2023
Choir Boy (play), Sound Designer, Portland Center Stage, 4/2023
English (play), Sound Designer, SpeakEasy Stage, 10/2022
tick, tick… BOOM! (musical theatre), Music Director, Portland Center Stage, 8/2022
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical theatre, remount), Music Director, Portland Center Stage, 1/2022
Intergenerational Queer Audio Project: Message to Ourselves (podcast), Music Director, Oregon Children’s Theatre, 6/2021
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical theatre), Music Director, Portland Center Stage, 1/2020
Macbeth (play), Music Director, Portland Center Stage, 10/2019
Dear Evan Hansen (musical theatre, abridged for Young Professionals Showcase), Music Director, Oregon Children’s Theatre, 7/2019
The Sacrifice of Belonging (theatre/movement piece), Sound Designer, Risk/Reward Pavement Festival, 8/2018
Cymbeline (play), Composer and Sound Design Consultant, Boston University, 5/2018
Lifeboat (play), Composer and Sound Designer, Corrib Theatre, 1/2018
What Is Left? (play), Composer, Sound Designer, and Performer, Avital Shira Directs, 8/2015
Echoes: a Cabaret Response to the Disappeared (play), Composer, Sound Designer, and Co-Creator, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, 1/2015
¡O Romeo! (play), Composer and Sound Designer, Milagro Theatre Group, 10/2014
Won Drammy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music
Love’s Labour’s Lost (play), Composer, Music Director, and Sound Designer, Post5 Theatre, 7/2014
Seussical JR. (musical theatre), Music Director, Young People’s Theatre Project, 6/2014
Dear Momma: a Love Letter (play), Production Manager, Untitled Productions, 1/2014
Revival (musical theatre), Production Manager, Skidmore Bluffs, 1/2014
The Importance of Being Earnest (play), Music Director and Sound Designer, Pop Up LA / LAAC, 10/2013
Two Gentlemen of Verona (play), Composer, Music Director, and Production Manager, Playmakers, 8/2013
Crumbs (musical theatre, 29-hour reading), Composer, Music Director, and Production Manager, Phantomwise Ensemble, 3/2013
Twelfth Night (play), Composer, Music Director, and Sound Designer, Portland Actors Ensemble, 7/2012
Won Outdoor Shakespeare Festival Award for Best Sound Design
A Live Dress (play), Production Assistant, Fertile Ground Festival, 1/2012
Featured Reviews
“A wonderful array of music adds depth and warmth... Actors play instruments, offstage and on, and composer and sound designer [Ash] has provided Elizabethan music and Aztec flight and drum riffs. A well-paced vocal phrase, the ring of a bell, add to the stage magic.”
— The Oregonian on O ROMEO!
“... beautiful original tunes through sections of text that the script indicates are songs but of course Shakespeare doesn’t bother to score. Chaves' closing “cuckoo song” solo is especially lovely...”
— OR Arts Watch on LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
“Composer [Ash] has written some lovely, lilting tunes for this production.”
— Artslandia on LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
“The idea of adding music from this period is quite a stroke of genius. Not only does it illustrate the feelings of the characters but it quite entertaining in itself... the addition of music [by Ash] is the icing on an already deliciously layered dessert.”
— Dennis Sparks Reviews on TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
“Props to Musical Director, [Ash].”
— Notes from a Shakespeare Nerd on TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
"I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the beautiful music written by [Ash] and very well performed by the entire cast. Bravo."
— Notes from a Shakespeare Nerd on TWELFTH NIGHT