KATE ASHTON (Lighting Designer) Recent work includes Chaos (Abu Dhabi), Medea, DR.C, Death of a Salesman, The Apostle Project, Moonchild (all with Theater Mitu, Resident Artist), Divorce Party: The Musical (original production and U.S. tour), A Play on War and Blind Mouth Singing (NAATCO), Tape (dir. Sam Helfrich), Rods and Cables (3-Legged Dog), Summer and Smoke (Theatre Row), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Henry Hewes Award nomination) and Another Part of the Forest (Peccadillo Theatre Company), Bristol Riverside Theatre’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Pride and Prejudice, Steel Magnolias, Up, and the Summer Musicales Series, The Winter’s Tale (Columbia University), The Danish Meditations/Slots, and Girl Talk. Opera: Armide, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Juilliard), Nina O Sia La Pazza Per Amore (U.S. Premiere), La Doriclea, Falstaff, Nine, and La Bohème (Manhattan School of Music). Music: Tango, Song, and Dance at the Kennedy Center (dir. Ed Berkeley). Dance: Skybetter and Associates, Syren Modern Dance, James Sutton and Anthony Ferro, Jim Martin Music/Dance, and Emily Harper’s Natural Dissection. BA, College of William & Mary. MFA, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Kate’s Resume