Ash Baker
Ash Baker
 

ACTOR

Ash has performed at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Highlights include playing Isabella in Measure for Measure at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London through Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe, returning to Shakespeare’s Globe to perform in the Sam Wanamaker Festival and originating the role of Else in Homefront: A World Premiere Musical at American Conservatory Theater.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Acting from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of The Arts.

 
 
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Performance Background

Ash has performed in nearly 100 plays, musicals, devised works, cabarets, one-acts, film projects and staged readings from the Bay Area to London. She trained as an actor and worked professionally from 2010-2020. Her artistic joy led her to compelling opportunities in directing and education. These are practices she aligns with deeply. As she synthesizes her decade of theatrical study, experience, vision and philosophy through directing, her shared language and perspective as an actor grounds her approach.

Ash’s theater credit highlights are listed below.

 
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Media Gallery

 
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RECENT

  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    Bay Area Bar Shakes | Madrone Art Bar | San Francisco, Ca
    Captained by Emily Anderson

    as Leartes

 

  • DOOMERS by Matthew Gasda
    Staged Reading
    Brooklyn Center for Theater Research
    Dir. Matthew Gasda | Asst Dir. Ash Baker | Prod. Sophia Engelsberg

    as Myra

 

  • Celebrating Thornton Wilder: An Evening with Tappan Wilder
    The Thornton Wilder Family / Prod. Rosey Strub

    as Emily, Our Town / Sabina, The Skin Of Our Teeth

 

  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    Shakespeare on The Water / Prod. Isabelle Ellingson

    as Viola

 
 

EDUCATIONAL THEATER

Rutger’s University, Mason Gross School of the Arts

  • Girl Says, Woman Says, Man Says by Jeana Scotti

    Playwrights Festival
    Rutgers Theater Company | New Brunswick, NJ
    Dir. Caitlin Ryan O’Connell


    as Soap Opera Woman

  • Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, from the original novel by Jane Austen

    New Brunswick Performing Arts Center | New Brunswick, NJ
    Dir. Malika Oyetimein

    as Sir Jon

 

  • Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
    Performed at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater | London, United Kingdom
    Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe

    + Remounted at Rutgers Theater Company | New Brunswick, NJ
    Dir. Simon Dormandy

    as Isabella, Mistress Overdone

 
 

  • Faust: Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Rutgers Theater Company | New Brunswick, NJ
    Dir. Christopher Cartmill

    as Wagner

 

  • The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder
    Rutgers Theater Company

    as Genevieve

 
 

DEVISED THEATER

  • The Motherline Story Project
    Created & Directed by Eliza Simpson

Learn more: motherlinestoryproject.com

 

  • The Other Shore
    Rutgers Theater Company
    Dir. Danielle Liccardo

 

  • Performance Ensemble: almost w(here): flowers growing through the roof
    Little Theater - Rutgers University
    Dir. Kevin Kittle

 

WORLD PREMIERE

American Conservatory Theater - Young Conservatory / M.F.A

  • Homefront: A World Premiere Musical
    Written by Craig Slate, Book by Creighton Irons

Original Cast Recording

 

REGIONAL THEATER

San Francisco Bay Area

American Conservatory Theater

  • American Conservatory Theater’s A Christmas Carol
    Geary Theater / Toni Rembe Theater
    Dir. Domenique Lozano

    as Martha Cratchit, Dancing Plum

 

The Mountain Play

 

  • West Side Story
    Marin Mountain Play Association
    Dir. Jay Manley

    as Anybody’s

 

  • Peter Pan
    Marin Mountain Play Association
    Dir. Micheal Schwartz

    as Lost Boy (Twin)

 

  • The Music Man
    Marin Mountain Play Association
    Dir. Jim Dunn

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

American Conservatory Theater

  • A.C.T.’s San Francisco Semester

15-Week Actor-Training Program, Undergraduate

 

  • Devised Project at The A.C.T. Costume Shop
    Dir. Mark Jackson

 

Conservatory Theater Ensemble
Tamalpais High School

  • Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) by Donald Margulies
    Dir. Julianna Rees

  • Great Expectations by Robert Johanson, from the novel by Charles Dickens
    Dir. Ben Cleaveland

 

Artsbridge
Summer Training Program

  • University of Minnesota
    Dramatic Acting Student

  • DePaul University
    Teaching Assistant to Ralph Zito

 

American Conservatory Theater
Young Conservatory

  • A.C.T.’s YC Teen Cabaret Ensemble - Dir. Craig Slaight and Robert Rutt

  • A.C.T’s Young Conservatory Junior Musical Ensemble - Dir. Betty Schneider

 

COMMUNITY & CHILDREN’S THEATER

San Francisco Bay Area

142 Throckmorton Theater

  • Fiddler On The Roof as Hodel

 

  • Urinetown as Little Sally

 

  • Annie as Boylan Sisters Vocal Trio

 
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