ASHLEY (SHADE) BYERTS is a professional actor, director, singer and playwright currently residing in central Pennsylvania. A native of Berkeley Springs, WV, she graduated from West Virginia University in 2011 where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting Performance & Theatre. Since graduating, she has worked professionally on stage and in film as a director, actor, voice over artist, and playwright, and has continued her study of Sanford Meisner’s Method of Acting since 2007. Her favorite roles include Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible at The Greenbrier Valley Regional Theatre, Sondheim's Putting It Together at Mountain State Rep. Theatre, Cinna/Pindarus in Julius Caesar at West Virginia University, and in the Netflix Original House of Cards. She was most recently back on stage as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and has most recently directed Boogieban by D.C Fidler through Players on High at the Carlisle Regional Performing Arts Center. She teaches acting, singing, movement, stage combat, and improv theatre classes through ArtReach Harrisburg, writes educational theatre curriculum for K-12 with ArtsAlive!, and is currently touring her one act bullying prevention play, CATCH, to public and private high schools in Pennsylvania. She is the Artistic Director at the Carlisle Regional Performing Arts Center, an Equity Membership Candidate, and adjunct instructor of theatre at Dickinson College.

Current Gigs:

• Urinetown, The Musical. Director. Players on High at the Carlisle Theatre

• Women’s Empowerment Improv Comedy Night. Carlisle Chamber of Commerce.

• Acting Basics for Parkinson Disease. Collaboration with Harmony in Balance.