As a Writer
"This region warehouses our nation’s war with itself about citizenship, class, race, gender, immigration, history and future. The soundtrack is just a bonus."
– Tressie McMillian Cottom
Brokeback Mountain
Ashley penned the play adaptation of Annie Proulx’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, which is currently playing in West End in London. Proulx says of the adaptation: “Brokeback Mountain has been recreated in several different forms, each with its own distinctive moods and impact. Ashley’s script is fresh and deeply moving, opening sight lines not visible in the original nor successive treatments. The story has always projected a sense of the difficult fated solitudes that echo in Wyoming’s tawny landscapes. The joinery of script, actors, director, theatre, audiences becomes a complex watershed of dozens of mountain streams finally merging into a river of sensibility.”
“Ashley Robinson’s stage adaptation, all of 90 minutes long, returns it to a distilled purity.”
-The Guardian
Fall of '94
Ashley’s true story of one of America’s most notorious murders… through the eyes of some redneck kids who lived it. As the conceiver and book writer, Ashley is collaborating with composer Joseph Thalken (HAROLD AND MAUDE) and Tony-Nominated lyricist Ellen Fitzhugh (GRIND, MYTHS AND HYMNS).
5 & Dime
Ashley conceived and wrote the book for the musical adaptation of Ed Graczyk’s play, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN, with music by Dan Gillespie Sells (EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE) and lyrics by Shakina Nayfack (CONNECTING, TRANSPARENT MUSICAL FINALE)
“A beloved groundbreaking play becomes a groundbreaking musical.”
-Broadway World
“It may be one of the New York moments when people can say they were there at the beginning, like A Chorus Line, Rent, or Hamilton…”
– Broadway World
Lockhart
Ashley has collaborated on several projects with two-time Tony nominee composer Jason Carr, including their original Southern Gothic musical LOCKHART, which just received an industry reading in London.