AshleySimone Kirchner is a professional director and choreographer based in New York’s Capital Region. She began her work in the region in 2010 with Playhouse Stage Company (formerly Park Playhouse) as Dance Captain in Annie Get Your Gun, and has since performed in many acclaimed productions with PSC including Cabaret, Spamalot & Avenue Q. She now serves as the Associate Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer, and Director of Education at Playhouse Stage Company. Over the past decade she has expanded the company’s education program, Playhouse Stage Academy, to include annually producing five youth productions, two Theatre for Young Audience productions and a year-round slate of pre-professional classes and workshops. Ashley was formerly the Lead Dance Instructor and Choreographer for the Musical Theatre Department at Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull, CT, and Director of Education at the Palace Theatre in Albany, and continues to teach Master Classes at dance studios and choreograph at theaters across the country. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College, where she performed restaged and new works by Lar Lubovitch, Merce Cunningham, Benoit Swan Pouffer and Christopher d’Amboise. She is a proud member of SDC, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.