Ashley Becher, Mainstage Artistic Director

ASHLEY BECHER is a professional actor, director, choreographer, and creator who truly loves the transformative magic of theatre and the way it can bring us together! Ashley spent more than a decade as an NYC based actor, creating in professional theatres around the country, and 3 years in South Korea (where she met her husband, Bobby). In 2020 they relocated to the Quad Cities and you may have seen Ashley's direction and/or choreography at Circa '21 in White Christmas, A Christmas Story, The Addams Family, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, Seussical, Just Desserts, Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, Grace for President, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Rocky Horror Show, or Rapunzel in the Wild West. She guest directed Beauty and the Beast and Frozen Jr. for North Scott High School, and has choreographed for Double Threat Studios and Moline High School. Other previous QC area productions include Director/Choreographer for Newsies! at Countryside Community Theatre, and Director for Davenport Junior Theatre's productions of Aesop’s Falables (2019), Imagine That (2022), Wind in the Willows (2023), and Finding Nemo Jr. (2024).

Although Ashley has been busy working on QC creative teams, she still works as an actor. Locally you may have seen her at Circa ‘21 as Female Authority Figures in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2024), Babette in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (2022), Jan in Winter Wonderland (2021), Flo in Saturday Night Fever (2021), Ensemble in Holiday Inn (2019), and briefly in Disaster (2022). Ashley still freelances as an actor and choreographer at regional theatres around the country.