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Ashley Laverty is a theatre maker originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the founding Artistic Director of Kerfuffle, a 501(c)3 theatre and dance company devoted to creating performances with and for children under 6 year olds. Under her leadership, Kerfuffle has partnered with many arts and non-arts organizations to bring aesthetically exciting, engaging, and accessible theatre experiences to children around the country in museums, libraries, parks, and community centers. With Kerfuffle, she has developed and directed Toddler Hiking Club: An Imaginative Nature Walk, Toad Hall, The Conductors, Goose and Gert, Nested, and The Caterpillar's Footprint.
Ashley is a teaching artist and has over 10 years of teaching artist experience, specializing in drama in the early childhood classroom. Currently, Ashley is proud to be a teaching artist with Lifeline Theatre, Writer's Theater, Imagine Performing Arts, and The Stage School. She is a certified children's yoga instructor, and she leads Professional Development workshops with classroom educators focused on Integrating Drama in the Early Childhood classroom.
Ashley is a director, playwright and actor, and has performed and had her work produced nationally at the Omaha Theater Company at The Rose, Brelby Theatre, Purple Crayon Players, National Theatre for Children, VEE Corporation, Roxy Regional Theatre, Vital Theatre Company and Storyland, a children's amusement park.
Ashley holds an M.F.A in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Musical Theatre from Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Ashley and her orange cat, Ron Weasley, are based in Chicago, IL.
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2024
Ashley Laverty is a theatre maker originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the founding Artistic Director of Kerfuffle, a 501(c)3 theatre and dance company devoted to creating performances with and for children under 6 year olds. Under her leadership, Kerfuffle has partnered with many arts and non-arts organizations to bring aesthetically exciting, engaging, and accessible theatre experiences to children around the country in museums, libraries, parks, and community centers. With Kerfuffle, she has developed and directed Toddler Hiking Club: An Imaginative Nature Walk, Toad Hall, The Conductors, Goose and Gert, Nested, and The Caterpillar's Footprint.
Ashley is a teaching artist and has over 10 years of teaching artist experience, specializing in drama in the early childhood classroom. Currently, Ashley is proud to be a teaching artist with Lifeline Theatre, Writer's Theater, Imagine Performing Arts, and The Stage School. She is a certified children's yoga instructor, and she leads Professional Development workshops with classroom educators focused on Integrating Drama in the Early Childhood classroom.
Ashley is a director, playwright and actor, and has performed and had her work produced nationally at the Omaha Theater Company at The Rose, Brelby Theatre, Purple Crayon Players, National Theatre for Children, VEE Corporation, Roxy Regional Theatre, Vital Theatre Company and Storyland, a children's amusement park.
Ashley holds an M.F.A in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Musical Theatre from Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Ashley and her orange cat, Ron Weasley, are based in Chicago, IL.
news!
2024
- Ashley is teaching 3rd grade drama integration with Lifeline Theatre at Mosaic Elementary School in Rogers Park and teaching after school Musical Theatre with Imagine Performing Arts.
- Ashley taught professional development workshops to early childhood educators in Nebraska focusing on drama integration in the preschool classroom as a part of Kerfuffle's Arts Across Nebraska tour in November.
- Ashley directed the devised "walk around play" Toddler Hiking Club: An Imaginative Nature Walk with Kerfuffle this summer.
- The Conductors toured via the Amtrak with The Connecting Routes Project in June. Kerfuffle's play was shared with over 200 people at the Connie Link Amphitheater (Normal, IL) and the Bloomington Public Library (Bloomington, IL) thanks to a partnership with the Illinois Art Station.
- Ashley served as the teaching artist for Lifeline Theatre's Stories Come Alive workshops for their Kids Series play, Skunk and Badger.
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