Ashley Malafronte directs, dramaturgs, researches, and teaches theatre (and edits HowlRound Theatre Commons).
Ashley Malafronte is a director, dramaturg, educator, and editor who is utterly obsessed with stories and the people who tell them. She is Senior Editor and Learning Programs Manager of HowlRound Theatre Commons and formerly served as the Head of Theater Studies for the Waterwell Drama Program at NYC’s Professional Performing Arts School. She is also a PhD student in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center, where her research focuses on theatrical adaptations and revivals, the economics of theatre, directing practice, and the performance of race and whiteness in US modern drama.
As a theatremaker (director and dramaturg), Ashley’s recent credits include Eurydice (Signature Theatre, assistant director), A View from the Bridge (Long Wharf Theatre, dramaturg & assistant director), Mad Forest (Waterwell/PPAS, director), The Emancipation of Sugar & Baby (The Brick, director), Private Lives (Arizona Theatre Company, SDCF Noël Coward Fellow/associate director), and Roe (Waterwell/PPAS, dramaturg). Ashley has made site-specific theatre in Inis Mór, Ireland; New Haven, CT; and in Austin, TX/her kitchen/cyberspace. She also produces the work of the experimental CAROL Performance Group, an experimental company making multidisciplinary performance collages. ashleymalafronte.com
