Awards & Honors
ACTING
Winner – Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical for Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood
Nominated – Independent Vision Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at VisionFest 14 for Chasing Taste
PRODUCING
Winner – Best Comedy at the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival for Chasing Taste (producer and actress)
Winner – Best Comedy at the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival for Chasing Taste (producer and actress)
Nominated - Outstanding Production at VisionFest 14 for Chasing Taste
Nominated – Outstanding Production for Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood
Nominated – Best Short Film at the 2020 Long Island International Film Expo for i only miss you when i'm breathing (also directed)
WRITING
Winner – SLS-St. Petersburg Review Award for short story “Daddy’s Girl”
Winner – scholarship to Disquiet International Literary Program for short story “Aunt Maryann Was Stolen”
Awarded writing fellowship from The Edward F. Albee Foundation
Ashley's book with Russ Giguere, Along Comes the Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits, trended as a Best Seller on Amazon – #1 in Folk and Traditional Music, #1 in Music History & Criticism, and #3 in Pop Culture Music throughout Fall 2020 on Amazon
DIRECTING/CHOREOGRAPHY
Ashley directed and co-produced i only miss you when i'm breathing, nominated for Best Short Film and for which Phil Vassar won Best Actor and Katherine Benson won Best Art Direction at the 2020 Long Island International Film Expo
Received 2 Awards of Merit, 1 for Short Film and 1 for Women in Filmmakers, and Phil Vassar received an Award of Recognition for his role as Leading Actor in i only miss you when i'm breathing in the Best Shorts Competition 2020
Directed i only miss you when i'm breathing, which led to Lori Fischer's award for Best Actor in the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Online Shorts Festival
Awarded Alumni Lab Grant from American Repertory Theater to direct a workshop of a new play, The Displaced
Nominated – Outstanding Choreography for Mother Eve's Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood
Participant in the 2015 Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater