About Ashley
Ashley Fox Linton is an actor, author, songwriter, recording and voice artist based in Los Angeles, California.
The LA Times claims that “her uncanny soprano can evoke goose bumps, while she also uncorks a Broadway-caliber belt when needed.”
She began working professionally at age nine in San Diego and continued creative pursuits on the East Coast with a BFA from the Boston Conservatory, R&B and Jazz studies at Berklee College of Music, Film at Harvard University, and improv and sketch with the Upright Citizens Brigade NYC/LA and Groundlings in Los Angeles.
Linton released her debut solo album “First Real Love,” which she co-produced with King Kozmo, a subsidiary of Jazzheads Records. It’s all original tunes by Randy Klein and various lyricists with a throw-back 70’s feel. Her second album “Christmas Will Keep Us Warm” features many songs she has written, paired with her favorite obscure holiday gems.
Ashley has toured the U.S. and Canada in Broadway blockbusters “Les Miserables” (which she reprised in concert numerous times singing as Cosette, most notably with Hugh Jackman as ValJean), the smash-hit “Wicked” and performed regionally at The Old Globe, Goodspeed Opera House, The Helen Hayes Theatre, North Coast Repertory, Cygnet Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Musical Theatre West, The Rubicon 3-D Theatricals and The Broad Stage.
She is a master teaching artist with Disney Musicals in Schools, building sustainable theater programs in under- resourced public elementary schools, teaches Acting and Shakespeare at Broadway Arts Studio and serves as Chair of Education and Outreach for the Musical Theatre Guild.
Her children’s holiday book “Cherry Lane” is available on Amazon and the audiobook is now on Audible!
She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association, American Guild of Variety Artists, Musical Theatre Guild, Society of Composers and Lyricists, Teaching Artists Guild & ASCAP.
An early start…
“I grew up in Del Mar, California, watching a lot of VH1 and developed an incurable obsession with music and storytelling. One morning in my kindergarten class, I forgot to bring my Care Bear for ‘Show and Tell.’ In a panic, I stood up and told the class I had prepared a song for them instead. I sang my favorite song at the time, “Somewhere Out There” from “An American Tale.” My teacher, Mrs. Hays, made me go around to every class in the school and sing for them. I remember being terrified to sing in front of the big third graders! I hadn’t told my parents because I was afraid they would be upset that I forgot my homework. It wasn’t until I was singing at an assembly that they found out I had been performing at my school.”