Ashley Rogers

Ashley Lauren Rogers is an award winning writer and trans rights activist. She was a writing fellow of the Trans Theatre Lab, She is the Literary Director for Step1 Theatre Project, was recently the artist in residence at Middlesex County Vocational Technical School in East Brunswick NJ. She has a stage combat oriented, trans and queer focused, on-going story-telling show called SCOWL. Her play Oddity was presented as part of the Trans Theatre Festival at The Brick in August 2018. Her play Chasing the Ghost had a reading at Judson Arts Magic Time in June of 2017. Her play Becky’s Christmas Wish was performed at City Theatre Miami as part of their “Winter Shorts,” and was a finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting contest as well as Minneapolis MN for The World Crime League’s F**ed Up Xmas short scene festival. Ashley performed her one-person show PASS/FAIL at Dixon Place Lounge, MITF, the Trans Theatre Festival at The Brick, and The University of Wisconsin. Her show The Illustrated Xmas Sweater was presented last winter with Step1 Theatre Productions. She was invited to the two week summer playwriting intensive at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. Ashley has been featured on multiple panels about trans representation through Revry.TV, was featured on Fusion TV’s Peabody award nominated Sex.Right.Now, and as a part of Charlie’s story in the Showtime Documentary More Than T. Ashley has written for Cosmopolitan, The Mary Sue, SFWA, John Scalzi Blog. Ashley developed a workshop for writing for trans and non­binary narratives available on WritingTheOther.com. Ashley is the Producer/creator of the Is It Transphobic? Podcast and The Right to Play Podcasts.