Ashley Baumgartner

Biography

Ashley Baumgartner is an undergraduate student at Saint Mary's College of California. She's a split major in English and Design/Technical Theatre and will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in May 2024. She's interested in pursuing a career as a theatrical lyricist, bookwriter and dramaturge. She also has a passion for short story writing, playwriting, and poetry.

She has had a single scene published as a part of a short play in the Fall 2021 "Aria" issue by Luck Jefferson. In June 2023, she had a poem titled "Grim Reaper's Helper" published in "The Skewies: An Award Anthology" by Audience Askew Literary Journal.

She also has basic technical theater knowledge from attending tech theater classes at Diablo Valley College in spring 2022. To add on to this knowledge, she completed a course in set design during the spring 2023 semester at Saint Mary's College.

As of right now, her experience in writing musicals is more of a hobby that she hopes to turn into a career by building a community of other emerging musical theatre makers and by pursuing post-graduate opportunities within that field.