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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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2025
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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2025
- Ashley is teaching 4th & 5th grade drama integration with Lifeline Theatre at a Rogers Park CPS school and teaching after school Creative Drama and Sketch Comedy with the Stage School. She is also teaching Preschool Creative Drama and After School Musical Theatre with Imagine Performing Arts.
- Ashley is the teaching artist for Lifeline Theatre's Stories Come Alive workshops for their Kids Series play, Leaf.
photo above by j.bern photo, Toddler Hiking Club 2024
