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Ashley Brooke Monroe is a Brooklyn based director focused on new plays and musicals. She is currently traveling the country as the resident director of the first national tour of Hamilton. Recent shows under her direction include Death Cruise (Access Theater), Fun Home (Cape Rep), The Goree All-Girl String Band (NYMF), Julius Caesar (CSC), and Orlando (Fordham). She has worked as an assistant/associate director alongside Sam Gold, Rebecca Taichman, Alex Timbers, Tommy Kail, Andre Gregory and Eric Ting. She assisted Sam Gold on the Tony-winning musical Fun Home and the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie featuring Sally Field and Joe Mantello. She is the associate director of Indecent (Tony winner for Best Director) and has worked on the show on Broadway, at the Huntington Theater, CTG, and the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. She has developed work with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Musical Theater Factory, The Drama League, The Culture Project, The Flea, Soho Rep, IRT, New York Theatre Barn and Special Sauce Company. Member of SDC, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Drama League Next Stage Residency.