Ashley Love serves as an ECE Programs Manager, overseeing Alley Articulated corporate training and our Arts in Health initiative while helping to support Primary Programs. She is an award-winning professional director, intimacy choreographer, actor, and mental health coordinator who prioritizes curiosity, sustainability, and connection in their work. Her creative work has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Warner Brothers and Fever Entertainment’s Yule Ball, Stages, Queensbury Theatre, Crowley Theatre, The Wayward Artist, Bluff City Theatre, Theatre West Virginia, The Octarine Accord, The Blue Theatre, Haven Arts Theatre, Creative Movement Practices, University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, COM Theatre, Be Theatre, Sam Houston State University, and Angelo State University. Prior to joining the Alley Theatre, Ashley was a theatre professor who also taught guest workshops at The Ohio State University, TTU School of Law, University of Idaho, Rice University, middle and high schools across Texas, Texas Educational Theatre Association, Texas Thespians, and the Region 6 American College Theatre Festival. She was a recipient of the TEACH Fellowship, The Ohio State University Research Fellowship for Dalcroze archives, Innovative Research Award from American Theatre Education Association for her published research on the application of music in the rehearsal and training process, and multiple awards from the American College Theatre Festival for their work in educational theatre. They are a certified Mental Health Coordinator and Artistic Mental Health Practitioner with the Association of Mental Health Coordinators and a member of National Society of Intimacy Professionals. Ashley holds multiple certifications in trauma-informed mental health work, BFA in Acting from Texas State University, MA in Theatre from Texas Tech University, and an MFA in Directing from University of Idaho.