Ashley Olive Teague is recipient of the Embark Award for Social Innovation in Entrepreneurship and founding Artistic Director of Notch Theatre. Her plays and partnerships have presented at the Children’s Defense Fund Advocacy Conference, the National Performance Network's Conference, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture's Creative Strategies for Commemorative Justice Salon, the Ubumuntu Festival in Rwanda, The Appalachia Studies Conference, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Chautauqua Institute, The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, White Heron Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theater, FSU/Asolo Repertory Theatre, Brown University, Amherst College, UNC Chapel Hill, Live@Jacks in Denver, HB Studios, New Ohio Theater,  La Mama Studios  and The Flea Theatre in New York City, among others. Teague worked on such films as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, Gus VanSant's Promised Land, and Tina Chism’s Peeples. She has received numerous awards including Broadway World awards for Best Director/Choreographer and Best Musical. Her writing has been published in Bedlam Magazine, in Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater, on HowlRound. Current interviews found on Broadway World, Monument Lab and the HB Insight Series.