ASHLEY-NICOLE has had a distinguished career in entertainment. She has over 10-years of experience producing and freelancing for production and entertainment event companies, nationally and internationally.
She began her career by assisting producing the 3rd Annual EBONY Pre-Oscar Celebration in Hollywood, CA. She quickly rose-up through the ranks and within two years she was the Producer for the Tobago Jazz Festival: Tobago, WI and Thisday Music Festival: Nigeria, Lagos. She coordinated talent travel specifics, backline and run of show for two years. She’s helped coordinate the Barry Bonds “ The Homerun King” Surprise Gala, The Grammys, Black Enterprises Women of Power Summit and Stevie Wonders 11th Annual House Full of Toys – to name a few. Some of the artists she’s worked with include Rod Stewart, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, John Legend and Shakira.
Ashley-Nicole has also worked alongside the legendary Suzanne dePasse with dePasse Jones Entertainment for three years vetting television projects for network distribution. She spearheaded a detailed observation of diversity within industry executive positions for Comcast.
Loving the film and television sector, she associate produced Chad Boseman’s (Black Panther) film Heaven and executive produced of Last Cry for Katrina, a documentary detailing the resilience of New Orleans natives post Hurricane Katrina. She has also worked with prominent producer Effie T. Brown to produce the movie The Inheritance.
Receiving a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and studying at The National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in Sydney, Australia theater is her first love. For three consecutive years she was the Producing Director for Meet me @Metro: an event that combines public transit with theatre. She has also produced Strange Fellowe, a workshop of a jazz opera which stared Tony Award winning actress Kristolyn Lloyd and Imagined Lives with Tony Award winners Leslie Odom Jr. and Patina Miller.
CLAUDIA DURAN is an award-winning filmmaker, she wrote, directed, produced SOFIA FOR NOW, a dramatic feature which screened at such film festivals as the Boston Roxbury Film Festival, Edward James Olmos’ Latino International Film Festival, Pan African Cinema Festival of Cannes, The Toronto World of Comedy
Festival, and independent film festival BHLIFE where she received both the Up And Coming Filmmaker award and later the Best Director award. Ms. Duran was selected from a pool of talent to write and direct The Last White Dishwasher, as part of Professional Latinos In Entertainment Emerging Filmmaker Program. She also Assistant Directed for ROBERTO CLEMENTE: BASEBALL’S LAST HERO
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While with Invision Entertainment, Claudia associate produced shows, DETECTIVE PRIVADO and CAMINO a LA JUSTICIA, and afterwards co-produced a reality based pilot for Azteca America. Claudia Duran has shared her love and knowledge of filmmaking and theater throughout the Los Angeles community by teaching at risk youth with the Live Arts Organization, instructing the Guerilla Filmmaking Intensive, Digital Production at CASA0101, and teaching artist with Social Political Art Resource Center and the California School for the Arts Conservatory. She has written, directed, and produced for The Los Angeles Theater Center as part of their Encuentro de Las Americas and Ensemble Theater LA Short Play Fest and Created the Chicanas Cholas y Chisme Play Festival in East LA since 2012.
With over 10 years experience serving and satisfying clients she is committed to providing our clients with superior customer service. She strategizes to make sure we are on target/time with deliverables of scopes of work. She is a proud graduate of LSU.
Ashley takes care of our aesthetics. She makes sure our design is inline with our event goals. She creates the beauty, the grit and the glamour. Ashley is a graduate of Tuffs University.
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