A.A. Gardner (Ashleigh Ann Gardner) is an Orlando, FL based playwright, dramaturge, actor, photographer, and composer. She earned her M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies and B.A. in English Literature from the University of Central Florida, with primary concentrations in film studies, the writings of Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, and Sigmund Freud, and the commodification of the female body. Her work has been seen at the Orlando International Fringe Festival, and her research on gender studies, feminisms, and psychoanalytic theory has been presented at the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Annual UCF English Symposiums. Her work explores relationships, loss, and death and how these individually transform personal identity.
A.A. Gardner (Ashleigh Ann Gardner) is an Orlando, FL based playwright, dramaturge, actor, photographer, and composer. She earned her M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies and B.A. in English Literature from the University of Central Florida, with primary concentrations in film studies, the writings of Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, and Sigmund Freud, and the commodification of the female body. Her work has been seen at the Orlando International Fringe Festival, and her research on gender studies, feminisms, and psychoanalytic theory has been presented at the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Annual UCF English Symposiums. Her work explores relationships, loss, and death and how these individually transform personal identity.