“MEDEA”

Duke Theater Studies

“Secret Things”

1st Stage


Ash Jeffers is a PMP-certified event & project manager in the Newark, NJ / NYC Metro Area.


Ash currently serves as the Non-Legal Operations and Project Manager at MIletus IP Management LLP, a startup intellectual property portfolio management practice, coordinating contract reviews and information management logistics. Their work includes maintaining project management systems in Monday.com, SharePoint, and Box; using Claude.ai to streamline redundant processes and expedite projects; and coordinating communication and information sharing across a large network of senior and executive team members.

Ash has worked as Assistant Events Manager with Campus Rentals at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. At the Kennedy Center, Ash coordinated with clients interested in renting performance and rehearsal space for individual and group performances, private corporate celebrations, and large public events.

As an Assistant Production Manager at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., Ash served as a Manager on Duty of the building's production operations while on site.

Ash has worked as a Technical Director and Props Designer at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, VA, for “The Phlebotomist,” and Technical Director for “Secret Things.”

Ash graduated from Duke University’s Trinity College. Their undergraduate Senior Distinction Thesis in Theater Studies, Scenic Design of Euripides’s “Medea,” was live-streamed as the Theater Studies Spring Mainstage production in May 2021 as a fully realized, masked & socially distanced production during the COVID-19 Pandemic. At Duke, they also served as a 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. 


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