Scott Richard Ashley
LIGHTING & SCENIC DESIGN
144 Oneida St., St.Augustine, FL 32084 ~ (904) 616-1187 ~ scottashld@gmail.com
Currently: Resident Set & Lighting Designer, The Limelight Theatre, St. Augustine, FL
Adjunct Faculty, Flagler College Theatre Dept., St. Augustine, FL
Lighting Designs: New York:
Clark Studio Theatre, Gorilla, My Love: Tales of Youth & Democracy Directed by: Jeffery V. Thompson
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Playwrights Evening, (Juilliard Drama Division) Directed by: Richard Feldman
Avery Fisher Career Grant Ceremony, National Television Broadcast on A&E’s “Breakfast
with the Arts” May ’04, in conjunction with Live from Lincoln Center.
Taiko, Performed by: Taiko Masala (Japanese Taiko Drumming)
Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo, (Lincoln Center Institute) Directed by: Kenneth Cahall
Roman Fever (NY Premier), The Music Cure
Operas by: Phillip Hagemann, Stage Direction by: Ellen Rievman
Tango Roots Music, Pablo Aslan & Avantango
Time Travel With the Virtuoso Keyboard, Andre Gribou
As If the Past Were Listening, Written & Performed by: David Gonzalez
Playing With Fire, Composed by: Robert Dick, Mark Smith & William Von Reichbauer,
performed by: Timothy Hagen & Marc di Minno
Remounts: This Ain’t No Rodeo, Design by: Jane Cox, Choreographer: Monica Bill Barnes
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Written/Adapted by: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Liz Diamond, Original Design by: Russell Champa
The Walker Space The Flid Show (Off-Broadway, NYC premier)
Written by: Richard Willett, Directed by: Eliza Beckwith
P.S. 122 Freak (John Leguizamos' work in progress)
HERE Arts Center Which Wolf is Which (World Premier), Written by: Sam Marks, Directed by: Robert O’Hara
Mulberry Street Theatre New Steps Series, Chen & Dancers
Symphony Space Waitering For Godot, Keith Crescente, Directed by: Leslie (Holban) Blake
Merchant House Museum The Philanderer, Front Line Productions
St. Marks Church Spring '99,Gotham Group Dance
Merce Cunningham Studio 2 w/ 3 (’98), 3 w/ 4 (’97), Spring (’99), Gotham Group Dance
Trinity Church Levitation, The Cherry Orchard, Undercroft Players
Grove Street Theatre Theatre Sports, Emilio Buckett . . ., Freestyle Repertory Theatre
Fringe NYC ‘98, The Theatorium Marriage (American Russian Foundation), The Prometheus Excerpts
Fringe NYC ’03, Greenwich House Theatre Caresses, Written by: Sergei Belbel, Directed by: Adam Eisenstein
The Kraine Theatre Beowulf (co-design), currently being work shopped, Directed by: Tania Inessa
Outside New York:
Tarrytown Music Hall NY Sofrito! Written and Performed by David Gonzalez and the Latin Legends Jazz Band
Miller Performing Arts Center NY The Flid Show (World Premier), Written by: Richard Willet Directed by: Eliza Beckwith
New Jersey Performing Arts Center NJ Gorilla, My Love, (‘04 &’05)
Centennial Theatre Festival CT Private Eyes, Directed by: Dean Adams
South Georgia Ballet GA The Nutcracker
St. Augustine Amphitheatre FL A Christmas Carol, No Greater Love, Ancient City Theatre
Florida Grand Opera FL La Serva Pedrona
Historic Asolo Theatre FL A Soldiers Story, West Coast Black Theatre Troupe
Florida A&M University FL Orchesis Dance Theatre
Tallahassee Little Theatre FL Laughing Wild
The Spanish Quarter FL This Old House, St Augustine Historic Pres. Board, (Television)
Turner Auditorium FL Othello, South Pacific, Rainmaker, The Miss Firecracker Contest, A Christmas Carol
Flagler Auditorium FL Katrina Relief Benefit - First Coast Friends of the Arts, Multithon - St. Augustine Art Association,
Flagler! Empire Builder of Florida -Limelight Theatre; Project X (1992-95) - Ponce Players,
Florida State University FL The Music Man, Lucky Stiff, Zoo Story, Killing Game, Violence Project,
The Diary of Anne Frank, The Rivals, Once Upon a Mattress

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Lighting Designs: Outside New York: (Continued)
Flagler College FL A Doll’s House, Women and Wallace, 1940's Radio Hour, Conduct of Life,
Talk to me Like the Rain . . ., Mere Mortals, The Little Prince, The Black Cat,
Step on a Crack, South Pacific, Auto Da Fe', Ledge, The Ledger & The Legend,
The Littlest Angel, A Midsummers ‘ Night Dream, Rainmaker, Our American Cousin,
Good Woman of Sezuan, Camelot, Brigadoon, All’s Well That Ends Well, Rainmaker
Set Designs:
Clarke Studio Theatre NYC
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo, (Lincoln Center Institute) Directed by: Kenneth Cahall
Turner Auditorium FL The Good Times Are Killing Me, Directed by: Melanie Lockridge
The Limelight Theater FL Last Night of Ballyhoo, Omnium Gatherum, Smoke on the Mountain, And Then There
(Set & Lighting) Were None, Last Train to Nibroc, Smoke on the Mountain, Rumors, Bedroom Farce,
Spitfire Grill, Of Mice & Men, Frankenstein, Criminal Hearts, H.S. Musical, Inherit the
Wind, Down an Alley Filled with Cats, Other Peoples Money, Over the River and . . . ,
Frankenstein, The Fantasticks, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, Miracle Worker, You
Can’t Take it With You, Man of La Mancha, Intimate Apparel, The Tempest, Foreigner,
Drawer Boy, Rounding Third, Picnic
Flagler College FL Rainmaker, Camelot
Players By the Sea FL Othello, Christmas Belles
Lighting Supervisor & Residencies:
The Utah Shakespearean Festival Master Elect. & Moving Light Programmer, Fiddler on the Roof, School for Wives,
Taming of the shrew
The Limelight Theatre Resident Set and Lighting Designer, (summer ’05 to present), St.Augustine, FL
Lincoln Center Institute, NYC Lighting Design Fellow, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (see attached job desc.)
¡Sofrito! w/ David Gonzalez Designed Touring Plot / Communicated plot to each venue (fall ’03 to fall ‘05).
Fringe NYC, Summer ‘98 Managed all shows in the festivals central venue: The Theatorium
Centennial Theatre Festival Managed all aspects of Lighting Production for the season, including:
Summer ‘01, Simsbury, CT equipment rentals, Electrics Crew, Designers and Budgets.
Hosted: Nunsense, the Dance Troupe MOMIX (Choreographer: Moses Pendleton),
Produced: Private Eyes (designed by: Scott Ashley), Last Night of Ballyhoo
(designed by: Rob Lazar) & Little Shop of Horrors (designed by: Chad Mcarver)
Tallahassee Community College Managed all facets of lighting implementation for each season. Including: Equipment
Fall ’02 - Spring ‘03, Tallahassee, FL Rentals, Purchasing, Electrics Crew, Designers, Budgets and Supervising outside renters.
Assistant Lighting Designer:
Florida Grand Opera 1997-99 Resident Assistant for 2 seasons. Facilitated all lighting needs for class A opera
Dade County Auditorium/ productions in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Macbeth, The Magic Flute, Tales of Hoffman,
Broward Center for the Performing Arts La Boheme, La Giaconda, Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, L'Elisir D'Amore & Turandot
Assisting: Marie Barrett, Guy Simard, Allen Charles Klein, Todd Hensley, Don Thomas,
Greg Hirsch & David Gano.
P.C.P.A. Theatrefest 1997 Resident Assistant for summer season. Tommy, Brighton Beach Memoirs,
Solvang, Santa Maria, CA H.M.S. Pinafore, & Always ...Patsy Cline. Assisting: Michael Peterson
Chen And Dancers 1997 S.U.N.Y. Brockport Residency, Assisting: Ted Sullivan
Mulberry St. Theatre NYC
Carolyn Dorfmann Co. 1997 Spring Season, Assisting: Richard Tatum
Manhattan, New Jersey
Teaching Experience:
Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, Theatre Department, Adjunct Faculty:
Intro. To Stage Lighting, Advanced Lighting, Set Design, Vectorworks 12.5 (C.A.D.), Stage Management
Alfred University, Alfred NY, Performing Arts Division:
Artist in Residence, (3 weeks) Spring 2003
Florida State University, School of Theatre: Introduction to Stage Lighting, 2001, 2002;
Introduction to Stage Craft, (Lighting Section) Fall 2002, Lighting Lab supervisor/instructor 1999-2002

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Other Experience:
Artistic Director, Warehouse 31, Red Mountain Entertainment, (Haunted Attraction), St. Augustine, FL 2009
Production Coordinator, Tone Test, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC, Summer 2004
Director, Multithon, Variety Show, Produced by: The St. Augustine Art Association, St. Augustine, FL
Lighting Consultant, Pandora (working title), Feature Length Film, Mindwell Studios, Inc. Queens, NY
Architectural Lighting, New Years Eve Ball, Flagler College, Hurst & Beville Jewelers; Daisy Davis (Private Residence), St.
Augustine, FL
Skills and Awards:
Lighting and Scenery for Theatre, Opera, Dance, Television, Film, Industrials, and Architecture. Proficient with ETC
consoles and equipment, Grand MA moving light console, as well as most other current technology (moving lights, scrollers
etc.), CAD and hand drafting, Lightwright, various rendering techniques. Also familiar with Photoshop and WYSIWIG.
Competent in the areas of carpentry, scenic painting, sound and stage management.
Received USITT’s Young Designers Forum award in 2002
Received Ponce Players award for Best Lighting Designer in 1993 & 1994
Education:
M.F.A. (Lighting / Scenic Design), Florida State University, School of Theatre, Tallahassee, FL
B.A. Philosophy and Religion / minors: English and Drama, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
References:
Ann Archbold, (United Scenic Artists, L.D.555) William Byrnes Scott Noppe-Brandon
Assistant Professor (Lighting Design) Past President, USITT; Dean, Southern Utah Executive Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University; School of Perf. & Visual Arts Lincoln Center Institute, NY, NY
Ken Frederickson, Robert Coleman Paul King
Production Manager Track Director (Technical Direction) Production Manager
Turner Auditorium, TCC, FL Florida State University, School of Theatre Lincoln Center Festival, NY, NY
Tommy Bledsoe, Arts Curriculum Coordinator
St. Johns County School Board
40 Orange Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
CONTACT INFO FOR REFERENCES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST