Theatre Director | San Francisco, Ca
About Ash
Ash Baker is a theatre artist based in San Francisco, Ca with over fifteen years of experience and study in ensemble-building and storytelling.
Ash is an active theatre director, classically trained actor and a proud teaching artist who has served several award-winning theater education programs in the Bay Area. As of Fall 2026, Ash has transitioned to Co-Director of Tam Drama’s Conservatory Theater Ensemble.
Additionally, Ash has worked as a research assistant within the literary and dramatic estate of a great American novelist and playwright.
In a previous chapter, Ash was a working portrait and production photographer and still enjoys getting to know herself and others through that medium.
Outside of the arts, Ash works as a deckhand on a beautiful 80ft gaff-rigged coastal schooner docked in Sausalito, Ca.
Rehearsal footage from ‘The Locker’, a devised theatre “choreopoem” Ash directed in 2025 about nautical lore. This original story follows a shipwrecked sailor named Jonah as he encounters myths and legends of the deep (sirens, sea creatures, Davy Jones and The Flying Dutchman) on a metaphorical journey through grief.
