ashley rose wellman
Ashley trying to look like a sweet baby angel at a vineyard while also remembering her play where a guy drowns in a bathtub of wine.
Ashley Rose Wellman is a Los Angeles playwright and screenwriter who writes plays and pilots about messy, complicated women who make bad decisions while navigating grief and family trauma.
Ashley’s plays have received staged readings and productions at Pasadena Playhouse, EST/LA, The Blank Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Company, TossPot Productions, Midnight Summit Ensemble, Red Cup Theatre Company, the University of Southern California, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Great Plains Theatre Commons, the Valdez Theatre Conference, and an international production at Spinning Plates Co. in Melbourne, Australia.
She won the 2018-2019 Humanitas PLAY LA Award, and was commissioned with a grant from the Humanitas Foundation to write SHRINES, which was presented by The Echo Theater Company at the Stage Raw/PLAY LA Theatre Festival. She is a two-time Finalist and two-time Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, a Finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, a Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace/New Dramatists Award, a Semi-Finalist for the UCROSS / THE BLANK THEATRE Future of Playwriting Award, and a Semi-Finalist for the Screencraft Stage Play Competition.
Her play HOT TRAGIC DEAD THING was highlighted on the 2020 Kilroys' List, which spotlights plays written by women, trans, and non-binary writers in American theatre.
She is a founding member of the Barelight Writers Project, and a member of the Playwrights Union, the New West Writers Group at EST/LA, and the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab.
Her pilot script PREDATORY is highly rated on The Black List.
Her short script Cordial was recently produced by chap.three productions as an episode of their anthology-style web series “City Kitties”.
She received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California.