Ashley Lyon

Ashley is a Boston-based actor, aspiring playwright, and theatre artist. Her work has been produced by Silver Masque Theatre Company at Northeastern University. When not writing/performing/auditioning/trying to write, Ashley can be found cooking vegan soup, thinking about dogs, and contemplating posthumanism

Ashley is a Boston-based actor, aspiring playwright, and theatre artist. Her work has been produced by Silver Masque Theatre Company at Northeastern University. When not writing/performing/auditioning/trying to write, Ashley can be found cooking vegan soup, thinking about dogs, and contemplating posthumanism

Scripts

We Are the Giants

by Ashley Lyon

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
political,
science fiction

Rae is new to town and trying to lay low, but her plans are altered by her new enigmatic co-workers at the local run-down vegan cafe, Momo's. When strange things start happening after a trip to the woods, these four young women have to grapple with what it means to inhabit a body in our world, reclaiming the power to exist, and the feminine urge to become a tree.

Rae is new to town and trying to lay low, but her plans are altered by her new enigmatic co-workers at the local run-down vegan cafe, Momo's. When strange things start happening after a trip to the woods, these four young women have to grapple with what it means to inhabit a body in our world, reclaiming the power to exist, and the feminine urge to become a tree.

Little Talking Things

by Ashley Lyon

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
science fiction

A child sets out on a quest to protect the stars from the big, mean sun. The sun, the moon, and the stars play out their story as they always do, but this morning something changes – in the meadow, the child is caught by a strange man who challenges their view of those shiny astral bodies in the sky. Through storytelling, a child and a stranger play with how we make sense of the universe and how we relate to our...

A child sets out on a quest to protect the stars from the big, mean sun. The sun, the moon, and the stars play out their story as they always do, but this morning something changes – in the meadow, the child is caught by a strange man who challenges their view of those shiny astral bodies in the sky. Through storytelling, a child and a stranger play with how we make sense of the universe and how we relate to our place within the cosmos.

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