Writing & Press

Select profiles written by Ashley Van Buren and a profile written about her collaboration with Tony-Winning actress Laura Benanti

Freudian Slips and Fabulous Hats: Catherine Zuber Takes Us Inside My Fair Lady

Catherine Zuber likes a psychological challenge. While she is known for creating showstopping costumes (from Anna Leonowens's violet ball gown in The King and I to Lucia's wild leopard-print dress in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), it's the details in each design that offer subtle character clues that embed themselves into our subconscious…

Comedy Duo to watch:

meet laura benanti AND ashley van buren

There’s something really exciting about two talented women joining forces and combining their brainpower to create amazing projects and performances. Such is the case with award-winning actress (and all around Renaissance woman) Laura Benanti and writer/producer Ashley Van Buren. These brilliant women first met when Ashley was producing for TheaterMania. It resulted in the Broadway star showcasing her comedic talent while pretending to audition for every single role in the then upcoming production of Peter Pan Live. The rest was history…

An "Imperfect" Feminist Finds Her Power in Gloria: A Life

Christine Lahti is not going to tell you how to be a feminist. But she is going to tell you how Gloria Steinem became one. Lahti is currently starring as Steinem in the new off-Broadway play Gloria: A Life, which tracks how Steinem, now 84, became one of the most influential voices in second-wave feminism…

The Isolation journals:

#46. Strangers on a train by ashley van buren

I’ve been taking pictures of strangers on the subway for over a decade. I find a person in my subway car and my whole body knows—they are the one. The subway is a place where you can find people in a state of suspension, they’re coming from somewhere and going to somewhere else, but where they are right now is not a place at all. People sit in this public space spending a few minutes alone with their private thoughts. No one really looks at anyone else on the subway, there’s very little judgment. It’s mostly a space of respect, one we all endure as privately as we publicly can, in order to get where we need to go…