About

Beth Ashby is a Chicago-based writer/director whose work revolves around the fantastical on a personal scale. Before earning her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, she made branded digital series for clients including Build-a-Bear, Cepia, and SEGA.  Her multiple awards include the grand prize in Champion Screenwriting Competition and second place in Scriptapalooza, and her work has screened at festivals in two countries, including the Female Eye Film Festival.  She centers the narratives of misfits, as well as LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent characters, and believes storytelling that normalizes inclusion, empathy, and nonviolence is more than capable of keeping audiences enraptured.