Ashley is certainly
one to embrace
change. It's probably
due to the fact that
she grew up in
Minneapolis, MN;
Philadelphia, PA;
West Chicago, IL;
Watertown,
La Crosse, and
Manitowoc, WI,
where her family
now resides.
Ashley landed leads in high school, including Miss Adelaide in
Guys and Dolls and Miss Hannigan in Annie, but it wasn’t until a close friend
encouraged her to go for it that Ashley took off with it.  At the same time, she
continued to play piano and show horses, at times shoveling a lot of horse
manure in exchange to ride.
Ashley didn't start theatre until she was a sophomore in high school. It was
through numerous piano summer camp competitions where Ashley first
discovered her love of musical theatre, because watching musicals was a way
to score points.
Ashley graduated
with honors with a
Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree in
Musical Theatre
from Viterbo
University in
La Crosse, WI, one
of Midwest's up
and coming
schools for musical
theatre.
*Photography by Britt Borcher
www.tanyphotography.com
At Viterbo Ashley performed in many productions, her favorites being  Blithe
Spirit (Madame Arcati), The Spitfire Grill (Effy), and
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Ensemble).

Ashley's favorite regional credits include:
Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (Cumberland County Playhouse), Denise
Sanders in Smoke on the Mountain at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, Gracie in
the regional premiere of Flight of the Lawnchair Man (CCP), Sally Brown in
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Great Plains Theatre), Chris Gorman in
Rumors (GPT), Ensemble/ Adelaide u.s. in Guys and Dolls (Armory Dinner
Theatre) and Denise in Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming (CCP).