Ashley Griffin

Season three or “Act III” of the podcast Playdate will premiere on March 6th, 2023. Playdate is a podcast in which hosts Julia Marie Black, a New York based playwright and actor, and Kait Fitzpatrick, a Massachusetts-based actor and educator, discuss plays and interview playwrights and other theater-makers. Black and Fitzpatrick will kick off season three of Playdate by discussing Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch with Actor, Director and Producer Ben Williamson.

Broadway writer/performer Ashley Griffin to release debut novel The Spindle.     The Spindle, a new fiction novel by Ashley Griffin (WellLife Network Award winner for Trial) will be published by Oaklea Press and released later this month. The Spindle is the classic fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” retold from the dark fairy's point of view…  

Zane Carney (“Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark,” John Daversa’s GRAMMY Nominated Album “Kaleidoscope Eyes”) and Ashley Griffin (“Trial,” “Forever Deadward,”) will collaborate on the upcoming musical WITCH HUNT – a reimagining of the Salem witch trials set against the backdrop of the American political system. Griffin will pen the book and lyrics with Carney writing the music.

Neil Gooding Productions and New York Rep will be holding a workshop and closed reading of THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE by Ashley Griffin at Theatre Row on the 17th and 18th of March, prior to its planned premiere season in New York.

On March 23, 2022, Keaka Productions, LLC will present, by invitation only, the first industry reading of “Portrait of a Heart”, a new play by Ashley Griffin (Trial). The reading will be directed by Mia Walker (Jagged Little Pill, Waitress). The play is based on a concept by Brian Spector (The Inheritance). 

Westside School of Ballet announces long time beloved teacher, Joan Bayley, passed away on January 5th 2022, just shy of her 102nd birthday. Often called “The Greatest Dance Teacher There Ever Was,” the dance world was forever changed for the better because of Joan Bayley. (“Joan.”)

Struggling artists Ashley and Evan are thrilled to have finally landed their big break when they are hired to pen producing mogul Frank Ryger’s new 200 million-dollar Broadway mega musical “The Sound of Love.” But during the development of their spectacle driven blockbuster they are forced to question whether they’re willing to put survival above integrity and just how much they’re willing to sacrifice in order to achieve their dreams.

Portrait of a Heart received an informal reading through Artists in Residence of Toronto in January, and another virtual reading just last week. The latest reading featured Sean Allan Krill (Jagged Little Pill), Nadia Bowers, Taylor Rose Mickens, Danny Gardner, Jete Laurence, John Allyn. It featured stage direction by Nicholas Leung and organized by creative consultant Hannah Ryan (Hamilton, An American in Paris).

Adrian Blake Mitchell, professional male ballet dancer at the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company, will livestream both a Master Class and also will host Westside Ballet's 'Dance Talks' series - Zooming from St. Petersburg on President's Day, Monday February 15, in honor of Black History Month and to support Westside Ballet's ongoing Crisis Relief Fund.

Arts podcast Indie Art Today is returning for its 2nd Season of episodes on January 25th, with new episodes airing weekly each Monday. The podcast is available to listen to on Anchor, Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes, and various other major streaming platforms.

After hit off-Broadway productions in NYC and development at the famed Playwrights Horizons, Ashley Griffina??s NYIT Award nominated play SNOW will make its UK debut in the fall of 2020 in a virtual production produced by Laura Jury and the South Devon Players Theatre starring Broadway artists Meredith Patterson and Jordan Lage.

ANNOUNCING our Platinum 8 WEEK Master Class with Actress, Writer, Director and Adderley Alum, Ashley Griffin! Ashley's jam packed resume includes on and off - Broadway material, as well as in T.V. and film in New York, L.A., London and Chicago.

With the current theatre world on hiatus, I have created a Spotlight Series on Broadway World which features interviews with some of the many talented artists who make our Los Angeles theatre community so exciting and vibrant thanks to their ongoing contribution to keeping the Arts alive in the City of the Angels. And just like all of us, I wondered how they are dealing with the abrupt end of productions in which they were involved. This Spotlight focuses on Ashley Griffin, an actor in Los Angeles since the age of five who moved to New York City to follow her theatre dreams - and is now both writing and acting in shows.

Writer/performer Ashley Griffin (Trial, Twilight: The Musical!) signs three play publishing deal with By/For Publishing for representation of her shows: The Snow Queen (adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen story,) A Little Princess (adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett,) and The Jungle Book (adapted from the novel by Rudyard Kipling.)   

On Tuesday, February 25th at 7pm, Wednesday February 26th at 6:30pm and Saturday February 29th at 4:30 pm there will be a premiere presentation of the new play The Middleman written by Marlin Thomas and directed by Ashley Griffin (Hamlet) at The Hudson Guild Theater, 441 West 26th Street as part of NYC Winterfest. Runtime: 80 minutes. Tickets range from $25-$34 and available at https://newyorkfestivaltickets.com/product/the-middleman/

The premiere cast recording for the off-Broadway hit: SPECTACLE: THE MUSICAL! has officially been released.

On Tuesday, January 21st at 7pm and Friday January 24th at 7pm there will be a premiere presentation of the hilarious new show Spectacle: The Musical! written by Ashley Griffin and Evan Jay Newman at The Triad Theatre, 158 West 72nd Street. Proceeds will benefit The WellLife Network. Tickets are $10 and available at www.triadnyc.com

Recording artist Errolyn Healy will be returning to 54 Below to bring her concert Swing & a Miss to 54 Below.

Ashley Griffin commissioned to create new theater podcast 'Stage Directions' for Onstage Network  

A down on his luck hustler and a trust fund baby form an unlikely bond when she hires him to help her move past her sexual trauma. But their search for intimacy must survive darker inclinations in a world where love is a commodity.