Ash Marinaccio, Ph.D.,  is an award-winning director and documentarian working in theatre, photography, and film. She is dedicated to storytelling that highlights the socio-political issues defining our times and is committed to creating work that evokes a deep sense of compassion and justice. As a multidisciplinary nonfiction storyteller, her work investigates complicated questions about class, violence, patriotism, and identity.

Ash's theatre work has been seen off-Broadway at Joe's Pub, Primary Stages, Rattlestick Theatre, Culture Project, at TED conferences including TED Women (introduced by Jane Fonda), The White House, The Apollo, United Nations, and on tour throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Her work has received critical acclaim from The New York Times, New Yorker, Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, Ebony, NY Press, Time Out NY, Backstage, Show Business and has been featured in segments on Buzzfeed, NBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, MTV, VH1, and NY1.

Ash is a League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Visionary Award recipient for her artistic direction of Girl Be Heard. She's a two time TEDx speaker. Ash is listed as one of Culture Trip's 50 Women in Theatre You Should Know. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Drama League, NY Public Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation.

Ash is the founding artistic director of the United Nations recognized NGO Girl Be Heard and the theatre collective Co-Op Theatre East (2008-2022). As part of her applied theatre Ph.D. work Ash founded Docbloc, a company dedicated to bringing together artists, scholars, and journalists working across nonfiction genres for creative collaborations in live performance.

She has traveled throughout the world as an invited artist, researcher, and professor. Ash has taught courses at New York University, Pace University (New York), Hunter College (New York), Queens College (New York), The Actors Studio (New York), Queens Theatre (New York), McCarter Theatre Center (New Jersey), Wolf Pack Theatre (Oregon), Pitchwise Theatre Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), ASHTAR Theatre (Palestine), and Garden of Hope (Taiwan). 

Ash holds her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the CUNY Graduate Center and M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.She is an alumna of the BAM/Kennedy Center's Professional Development Program, Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC, American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Old Vic/New Voices, and The Civilian's Field Research Team. She is on the faculty of Media and Performance at Queens College and a guest artist/director in Applied Theatre at Purchase College.

She is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

CV available upon request.