Ashley joins the choir in Jeanine Tesori's BLUE at Lincoln Center
Ashley is honored to step onstage at the world famous Lincoln Center! She joins a choir 150 strong to premiere a new element to this piece: a live (surprise) chorus! Under the direction of Lincoln Center Presents, presented in collaboration with Lincoln Center Theater and The Metropolitan Opera. This two-act opera, with music by Jeanine Tesori, a libretto by acclaimed playwright and director Tazewell Thompson, and direction also by Thompson, offers an unflinching exploration of race and identity within the Black community.
Experience a staged concert of Blue, the award-winning contemporary opera from Lincoln Center’s 2025 Visionary Artist and two-time Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori. Set in Harlem, Blue is a poignant and powerful contemporary opera that delves into the heart of a Black middle-class family—grappling with the devastating loss of their teenage son, who is fatally shot by a white police officer during a peaceful protest.
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This once-in-a-lifetime presentation is presented at the Wu Tsai Theater in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on Saturday, November 15th at 7:30 pm, tickets available now.
Ashley to make La MaMa debut with Erik Ehn's CREATURES series
Ashley is thrilled to rejoin The Skeleton Rep(resents) for another salon production. Under the direction of Ria T. DiLullo, 3 Staged Readings of New Shorts by Erik Ehn take center stage. These include: All Nouns End As Verbs One Day; Radif; & Zombie vs. Godzilla.
Creatures is a two-week inhabitation of 74A E 4th St. with installations, short works/performances, workshops, meals, vigils, processions, and conversations about liminal beings as they manifest across cultures. Creatures convenes artists, scientists, scholars, and theologians from across the globe to consider non-human protagonists as prophets of compassion in an era of great ecological precarity.
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This one-night-only presentation runs at the Loft at La MaMa on October 27th at 6 pm, for more info visit www.lamama.org/creatures.
Get ready for the Betties in Pocket Theater Company's COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BETTIES
"I think a lotta things that seem like art are maybe actually just about p*ssy. And then also, things that are mostly about p*ssy might actually just be art."
Ashley joins COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BETTIES by Jen Silverman as the feisty, no-nonsense Betty 3. Under the direction of Emmie D'Amico, this is the inaugural production from Pocket Theatre Company.
Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.”
This show runs at The Chain NYC as a limited, independent production from September 4th - 6th at 7:30 pm, tickets available now.
Ashley joins EMMY: Or, THE NEMESIS OF NARCISSISTS at The Tank's LimeFest
Ashley explores modern myth once again with The Skeleton Rep(resents)! This time, she takes on the nymph Echo (of Greek mythology fame) in Ria D. DiLullo's EMMY: Or, THE NEMESIS OF NARCISSISTS.
Housing nine characters across three acts in the mythological eternal now in an average place, EMMY features the goddess of revenge Nemesis in disguise as a new-order nymph named Emmy, Zeus fornicating with a different nymph named Evie, Hera enlisting the help of two human siblings to catch her cheating husband, and Narcissus reimagined as a pop star named Rick Luck, with Tiresias the seer as the local radio DJ spinning throughout. All but the most powerful gods get what’s coming to them. Caught in the crosshairs of the action is Echo, a good-natured nymph who wants to do right by her best friend, Evie. But when she starts lying to Hera to protect her friend, she becomes compromised. All the while, neither Evie nor Echo heed Emmy/Nemesis’ warnings that interacting with beings far greater in power than themselves can only bring about their destruction.
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EMMY runs at The Tank NYC as part of LimeFest 2025 for a single performance at 3 pm on Saturday, August 23rd, tickets available now.
WINNER: Pluto Is Listening is the Best Production of a Play Off-Off Broadway
And the Winner is... PLUTO IS LISTENING!
Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Off-Off Broadway Awards, and the production, penned by award-winning author David James Parr has taken home the coveted award. Produced by Boundless Theater, the play tells the story of lonely outsiders Grace Grady and Benjamin McCoy in the remote town of Pluto, Ohio. The pair form an unlikely bond that explores the bittersweet trajectory of an intense friendship fueled by alternative substances, colored by coded language and enhanced by blurred realities.
Miss Vega was also nominated twice in the category of Best Performer in a Play (Off-Off Broadway). These nominations are from her performances as Grace Grady PLUTO IS LISTENING and Chloe Gonzales in the new immersive version of ELEANOR RIGBY IS WAITING.​
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The BroadwayWorld Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
Winners were announced January 21st, 2025 via an online press release on BroadwayWorld.
Ashley is a BroadwayWorld Off-Off Broadway Award nominee (x2)!
Ashley is honored to be nominated for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Off-Off Broadway Awards!
Miss Vega has been nominated twice in the category of Best Performer in a Play (Off-Off Broadway). These nominations are from her performances as Grace Grady PLUTO IS LISTENING at Under St. Marks Theater and Chloe in the new immersive version of ELEANOR RIGBY IS WAITING at Medi Wine Bar. Both plays were produced by Boundless Theater and were penned by award-winning author David James Parr.​
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The BroadwayWorld Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. BroadwayWorld's local editors set the categories, readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites!
Voting will continue through December 31st, 2024. Winners will be announced in January of 2025. To support Ashley, please vote using this link
Ashley stars in David James Parr's Pluto Is Listening at Frigid NYC Fringe
Ashley stars alongside Abdu Garmazi in PLUTO IS LISTENING by award-winning author David James Parr. under the direction of Sophie Sam.
How far would you go to escape your past? In the remote town of Pluto, Ohio, lonely outsiders Grace Grady and Benjamin McCoy form an unlikely bond that survives a series of overwhelming obstacles. Told in a non-linear narrative over the course of 20 years (between 2001 and 2021), the mystery-drama PLUTO IS LISTENING explores the bittersweet trajectory of an intense friendship fueled by alternative substances, colored by coded language and enhanced by blurred realities.
The play explores understanding, loss, substance abuse, and how we grow around our wounds. Think NORMAL PEOPLE meets ALL OF US STRANGERS with dreams of INTERSTELLAR.
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The show runs as part of the Frigid NYC Fringe at the famed Under St. Marks Theater, tickets available now.
Ashley joins a river, its mouths with STAGES Houston's SIN MUROS: A Latinx Theatre Fest
No strange place for Ashley, a South Texas border town is the setting for a river, its mouths written by Jesús I. Valles. Under the direction of Jasminne Mendez, this virtual play is presented as a virtual benefit for STAGES Houston as part of Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Festival.
Struggling with severe depression, You return to your hometown in Texas, right by the river that raised You, right on the border with Mexico. It’s the summer of 2019 and the Rio Bravo keeps claiming migrants’ lives during their perilous crossings. However, the people in your hometown are much more interested in talking about “The Rio Grande mermaid,” a creature rumored to haunt the river, clawing its way out of the sand, out of the water, into the air, into your head, haunting the mouths of family, friends, and strangers. Something in the water calls to You. “Come,” the river says, “Come to me.”
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Watch the play on Sunday, May 28th streaming on YouTube.
Ashley stars in Basic Glitch Off-Broadway
THE GLITCH IS BACK! Ashley joins Stephanie Salazar-Amaro's BASIC GLITCH Off-Broadway as an Official Encore Selection of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. Having previously directed the original iteration of the show in 2019, Ashley now stars as Ramona, a woman dealing with infertility issues. Ramona seeks solutions from customer service in order to rectify her one big problem: the inability to have children. Customer service guru Magda and her intern Lino step in to help, but soon find that some problems are beyond the reach of traditional customer service.
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The one-night-only encore performance will be presented at Theatre Row's Theatre Four on Friday, June 24th at 5pm. Tickets are on sale now. Be sure to read the feature on BroadwayWorld.
Ashley leads Shann Smith's BLACKOUT with Company of Fools
Ashley leads Shann Smith's new play BLACKOUT, presented as a virtual benefit for Company of Fools theatre company out of Brooklyn.
The play follows Vega as superhero Cassie Robertson (AKA Blackout), who struggles to maintain control of her powers and process her grief a year after her mentor’s suicide.
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For more, visit www.companyoffoolstheatre.com/blackoutdetails, and follow @FoolsCo on Instagram.
Well, Ashley... is an Official Selection of The New York Indie Theatre Film Festival 2022
Well, Ashley... - a new web series Co-created by & starring Ashley Kristeen Vega - is an Official Selection of the 2022 New York Indie Theatre Film Festival. Broad City meets Arrested Development with the flavor of Fleabag in Well, Ashley... , the semi-true life story of one young woman’s struggle to act, to find love, and to get paid for it. Either one, honestly.
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You thought this would be easy? Well, Ashley…
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For more, visit www.wellashley.com, follow @WellAshleySeries on Instagram and IMDb.
OPEN is a critical success, "Magic is real."
Party Claw Productions celebrated a successful run of Crystal Skillman's OPEN, a magic show without magic.
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Critics described the show as "absolutely stunning", with one reviewer raving "The production’s subtlety is a testament to the power of simplicity to have a profound impact on viewers, virtual though they may be... Magic is real." Another reviewer remarked the show was "as enchanting as it is gut-punching and honest", and cited Miss Vega's performance as "captivating... engaging throughout, as her charisma and range of emotions lure you into her spell for the show’s 70-minute running time."
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Under the direction of NTI Alum Sophie Sam and starring Ashley Kristeen Vega, OPEN is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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The play was also selected as one of Time Out New York's Best Live Theatre To Stream for the week of October 1st - 7th, marking Party Claw's first official notice in the New York publication.
Psychasthenia Hollywood Premiere is a red carpet success
​After the Hollywood premiere of Psychasthenia, where the film was honored with BEST THRILLER at the world-famous TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, filmmakers and stars Elliot Stevens and Ashley Kristeen Vega took to the red carpet to enjoy their well-deserved win.
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Join the revolution by following @PsychastheniaFilm on Instagram and IMDb. Psychasthenia is now streaming online at PsychastheniaFilm.com.