“MEDEA”

Duke Theater Studies

“Secret Things”

1st Stage


Ash Jeffers (they/them) is a PMP certified event & production manager, scenic designer, and technical director in the Newark, NJ / NYC Metro Area.

Ash has worked as Assistant Manager with Campus Rentals at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and Assistant Production Manager at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C; at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, VA as Technical Director and Props Designer for “The Phlebotomist;” and Technical Director for “Secret Things.”

Ash is a graduate of Duke University’s Trinity College. Their undergraduate Senior Distinction Thesis in Theater Studies, Scenic Design of Euripides’s “Medea,” was live-streamed in May 2021 as a fully realized, masked & social-distanced production in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. At Duke, they also served aA Production Designer for “Citizen: An American Lyric;” and Assistant Scenic Designer for “Life is a Dream.”

From 2019 to 2021, Ash served as Technical Supervisor on the Executive Council of Hoof ‘n’ Horn, Duke’s student musical theater organization. With HnH, they served as Technical Director for “In The Heights,” and Assistant Technical Director for “Spring Awakening.” Ash is a member of the Hoof ‘n’ Horn Alumni Board. 

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Ash Jeffers & director María Zurita Ontiveros on the set of MEDEA, Spring 2021.

Meet the Duke Seniors Behind Theater Studies’ Mainstage Production of Medea

By: Nina Wilder | Duke Arts | March 29, 2021

In The Heights: Duke University’s Hoof ‘n’ Horn

Undergraduate Technical Directing Portfolio