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

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).