Ashley Botting
Bio
Ashley Botting (she/her) is an actor, writer, improviser, director, and singer. She’s an alumna of The Second City where she wrote and performed in four Mainstage revues, and directed two. She is a writer on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and a panelist and writer on CBC Radio’s Because News. Ashley With a “Y” – her improvised one-woman musical cabaret – was NOW Magazine’s #1 Toronto Comedy Show, and The Stars of Mars – a musical she co-wrote – was awarded “Best New Musical” by The Playwrights Guild of Canada. She’s written episodes for the Emmy-winning Odd Squad, Nickelodeon’s Zoofari, and Apple TV’s The Snoopy Show. Selected theatre acting credits: Undiscovered Sonnets (Stratford), The Second City Guide to the Symphony (The Kennedy Center, Roy Thomson Hall), Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Studio 180) Beautiful Man (Factory), She The People (The Second City). Selected TV acting credits: Schitt’s Creek, What We Do In The Shadows, Culprits, Odd Squad, Coming In.