Ashley Griffin is a graduate of NYU'S TIsch School of the Arts, and has studied at The Boston Conservatory and Northwestern University. She currently works at the Library of Congress and on PBS Classic's Musical Theater historical archiving project, The Songwriter's Series (Charles Sings Strouse, Jonathan Sings Larson, Howard Sings Ashman.) She assisted on "Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz" the first biography of composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and has assistant taught at NYU Tisch (Musical Theater History, Shakespeare.) Ashley is a member of Actors Equity, and has worked extensively as a performer in New York, L.A., Chicago, and the U.K., recently making her Broadway debut as Elphaba in the "Wicked" "For Good" special event concert at the Gershwin Theater. As a writer, her plays have been produced off-Broadway, as well as in L.A and Chicago. She has contributed articles to The Curator and has worked as a theater critic for theateronline.com.