Ashley Wagner Arts

Singer. Actress. Composer. Sound Designer.

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    • Twelfth Night
    • Much Ado About Nothing
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  • ASHLEY WAGNER
  • PERFORMER
  • COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Twelfth Night
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Original Songs and Arrangements
  • ABOUT
    • Resume
    • Press
    • Photos
    • Wedding
  • WRITING
    • Favorites
    • Disney Blog
    • Phoenix in Paris
    • Academic
    • Music & Theatre
    • Blog
  • CONTACT
  • ✨ Enchanted Adventures ✨
  • 🎶 Study With Me 🎭
  • ASHLEY WAGNER
  • PERFORMER
  • COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Twelfth Night
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Original Songs and Arrangements
  • ABOUT
    • Resume
    • Press
    • Photos
    • Wedding
  • WRITING
    • Favorites
    • Disney Blog
    • Phoenix in Paris
    • Academic
    • Music & Theatre
    • Blog
  • CONTACT
  • ✨ Enchanted Adventures ✨
  • 🎶 Study With Me 🎭

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  • Music & Theatre

    ❄️ “Let It Go” ❄️ (Disney’s ‘Frozen’ with CGI Animation)

    2 March 2021 / 0 Comments

    Is there anything you need to let go of right now? I hope today’s video inspires you to release something that’s bothering you, holding you back, or holding you down ✨  This was tons of fun to make, and I hope you enjoy it! ❄️ Thank you, Snapchat, for a filter (cartoon) that lets me realize my dream of being an animated character 🙃👌😎 Since I’ve never fully recorded this song before [high belt + how do you even mic this??], I thought Elsa’s first power ballad would be the perfect way to test it out! “Let It Go” is, of course, from Disney’s “Frozen” and was composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez and voiced by…

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    Happy Working Song! (Disney’s “Enchanted”)

    3 April 2019

    Passione (canzone napoletana)

    17 March 2020

    “The Fear” (Lily Allen cover)

    17 April 2019
  • Favorites,  Music & Theatre

    Announcement: Countdown ’til Christmas 🎄

    3 December 2020 / 0 Comments

    Hi, friends! My children’s Countdown ’til Christmas is now live! I’m making daily videos from Dec 1-24 with singing, reading stories, and talking about traditions from around the world. I hope this will spread a little extra cheer to a very unusual holiday season. It would mean so much if you’d share this with the children in your life! I really hope you enjoy them! The direct link to the full Countdown playlist is here: I created a new YouTube channel, Countdown ’til Christmas, for it. It would help me a great deal if you would subscribe! Subscriptions help the channel grow and others to be able to find the…

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    Can’t Help Falling in Love

    20 May 2020

    “Tea for Two”

    6 June 2019

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019
  • Favorites,  Music & Theatre

    Come Away, Death (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night)

    31 October 2020 / 0 Comments

    My latest original composition for one of Shakespeare’s songs! I hope you enjoy it! The lyrics to this song come from Act II, scene iv, of Twelfth Night (1602). Duke Orsino and Cesario are suffering from unrequited love and ask Feste to sing this song to ease their pain. Shakespeare’s plays include many songs and dances, but these are often excerpted in modern productions (which is something I hope to help change :)). Very few of the original melodies survive, and some of my past work has been to compose music for the lyrics Shakespeare provided, which I really enjoy doing! If you’re planning an upcoming Shakespeare production and are…

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    A picture is worth a thousand words; or, Rusty the Red Panda escapes from the National Zoo

    27 June 2013

    They’ll Know We Are [Human] by our LOVE

    24 April 2019

    On Human Dignity and Shared Experiences

    16 August 2015
  • Favorites,  Music & Theatre

    “Home Enough to Me” (Dean & Brush)

    21 October 2020 / 0 Comments

    Celebrating a very special person in a very special way: it’s my mom’s birthday! I’m so grateful to have her in my life and to be able to be with her in person this year ♥️♥️♥️ We recorded this music video over the weekend: we had planned to go to a pumpkin patch/corn maze, but they were swamped with people. Instead, we ended up making this in the beautiful countryside near those farms (outside of Milton, FL)! It was so much fun and a special memory to do something like this! This video is part of a #10gloChallenge featuring the music of Dean & Brush! This song comes from their musical The…

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    They’ll Know We Are [Human] by our LOVE

    24 April 2019

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020

    Disney Cruise Line blog

    4 August 2019
  • Music & Theatre

    Shakespeare Musical Preshow

    14 October 2020 / 2 Comments

    Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is a throwback to one of the most fun productions I’ve been a part of 😃 I hope you enjoy this excerpt from the musical pre-show I designed for Coronado Playhouse‘s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”! My talented fellow performers and dear friends are Renee Ulloa-McDonald, Carly Pandza, and Danielle Orner (Gallagher) 👏 🤗 The songs featured here are: 0:06 “Sumer is icumen in,” a mid-13th century round, written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English. 0:49 “Fair Phyllis,” an English madrigal by John Farmer, published in 1599. 2:11 “Now Is the Month of Maying,” an English ballett (similar to a madrigal) by Thomas Morley, published…

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    Happy Working Song! (Disney’s “Enchanted”)

    3 April 2019

    Julius Caesar excerpts!

    29 May 2019

    Dduje paravise

    1 April 2020
  • Music & Theatre

    Composing a new Shakespeare song!

    7 October 2020 / 2 Comments

    For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I decided to show you a new song I’m working on composing and recording! I hope you enjoy hearing it and a bit about the process of writing music for Shakespeare’s plays, which I really enjoy doing! I play it twice, at 1:03 and 7:12. This is my fourth or fifth version of “Come Away, Death” from Twelfth Night. You can hear bits of two others below – one of them is kind of a fugue-ish embellishment on this melody: The goal for this new version is to come up with a simple melody that would be singable for most people; the other two versions I’ve written…

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    Julius Caesar excerpts!

    29 May 2019

    Pardon, Goddess of the Night

    11 September 2019

    “Bill” (Showboat) – NYU Master’s Recital

    11 March 2020
  • Academic

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020 / 2 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. This assignment comes from my General Linguistics summer course and was a collaboration with Sara Grzywacz. We created a proposal and preliminary mock-up for a preschool storybook that includes strategically designed questions and activities built into the text of the story to help caregivers of all kinds prepare their children for school, in an entertaining and appealing way. Below, I’ve shared our presentation for our design. Though we were only able to touch on this in our presentation, our research is informed by work from Shirley Brice Heath (1982), Frederick Erickson (2004), William Labov (2006), and Rosina Lippi-Green (2012). The story we’ve used is Disney’s Cinderella…

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    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019
  • Academic,  Music & Theatre

    My Fair Lady: Full Performance

    26 August 2020 / 2 Comments

    For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I’ve combined all of the edited clips into the full version of my #NYU Master’s recital character study of Eliza Doolittle from Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” 💜🎓 I hope you enjoy watching our 30-minute performance in its entirety! Whether this is your first time viewing it or you’ve already watched my full recital performance – thank you! – I really appreciate your supporting my work! It was so fun to work on this with my incredibly talented colleague-friends! They are: Tyler Dobies as Henry Higgins; Nyla Watson as Col. Pickering; Minque Taylor as Mrs. Higgins and Costermonger; Adelle Blauser as Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Eynesford-Hill, and Costermonger; and…

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    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020

    NYU Master’s Recital/”My Fair Lady” – Full Live Performance

    5 December 2019

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020
  • Academic

    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics: Multimodal Interaction Analysis. Professor: Frederick Erickson. It was a great privilege to work in a small group setting with the seminal scholar Frederick Erickson! Our course centered on learning to transcribe and microanalyze video – a complicated task, due to the immense amount of visual and auditory information captured through this medium. If you’ve ever wondered how researchers might represent data from video, keep reading! Here, I’m presenting my final project, which not only shows you my final product, but also walks through my process for developing this multimodal transcription. The video is from a game of “Scattergories,” in which my mom, fiancé, two cats, and…

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    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language

    9 October 2019
  • Academic

    “It’s pretty hard”: Stance and Dialogicality

    20 August 2020 / 0 Comments

    Georgetown University, 2020. Linguistics. [Sharing below a short paper from Discourse Analysis: Conversation, applying Du Bois (2007) to my data. My conversation data recording and transcripts are available here.]            According to Du Bois’ (2007) definition, “it’s pretty hard” is an expression of stance, and arriving at its meaning and interactional significance can only be achieved through identification of the participants involved, the object discussed, and the utterances that led to this remark.             Du Bois writes, “[i]n taking a stance, the stancetaker (1) evaluates an object, (2) positions a subject (usually the self), and (3) aligns with other subjects” (163). This predicates that stance acts include more than one subject…

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    Multimodal Microanalysis: Scattergories! Video Clip

    20 August 2020

    Using Linguistics to Scaffold Children for School and Promote Positive and Diverse Representation

    2 September 2020

    Sensory Experience: Olfaction

    22 January 2020
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