Alumni News: Theatre Arts Major Earns Prestigious Award

Ms. Kelly-Tata will be honored at a dinner at the Lotos Club on April 16 and will receive a monetary award.

About Ashley Kelly-Tata
In 2007, after graduating from Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Arts Program with a BA in Theatre Studies, Ms. Kelly-Tata attended Lincoln Center Theatre’s Director’s Lab. She co-Founded the Internationalists Directors’ Collective, and founded her own company, Enthuse Theater & Co. She has pursued a hybrid career as an opera director and director of devised or original works of theater. As an assistant director, she has worked with Robert Woodruff on numerous occasions. She assisted Chen Shi-Zheng on the US and New York premieres of Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze (Spoleto Festival, USA and Lincoln Center Festival). With Enthuse Theater & Co. she has begun creating a training methodology incorporating collaborative yoga practice, vocal work, mask-work, Viewpoints training, etude development and text/scene analysis. Upcoming projects include directing a reading of Bryan Quick’s Columbia Graduate Thesis play Faust: A Tragedy at the Signature Center, directing David T. Little’s Soldier Songs with video by filmmaker Bill Morrison at the Atlas Theatre in Washington, DC and the Holland Festival and assisting Daniel Fish on the premiere of Ted Hearne’s opera The Source which will premiere at BAM’s Next Wave festival in October of 2014. For more information, visit her website at: www.ashleykellytata.com

Published: March 31, 2014