Ansley Valentine
Ansley Valentine
2024-2025 Roe Green Visiting Director
Ansley Valentine is a professional director and actor for the theatre and musical theatre and an educator with experience teaching at the collegiate level and in both public and private performing arts high schools. Ansley is currently a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Actors Equity Association (AEA). His work as a director and actor has been seen at The Cleveland Play House, Florida Rep, Indiana Rep, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Studio Arena Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Cardinal Stage and many other theatres around the country. Ansley is also a graduate of the Arts Midwest Minorities in Arts Administration Fellowship, a program funded by the Ford Foundation to increase minority representation in leadership roles at American not-for-profit organizations. His many awards include a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. He is a company member at Fonseca Theatre in Indianapolis and Actors’ Reading Collective in the San Francisco Bay Area. He heads the graduate directing program at Indiana University. Ansley holds an M.F.A. in directing from Indiana University and a B.A. in theatre from Wabash College. He is a co-founder and the producing artistic director of Ohio Youth Ensemble Stage, a professionally-managed summer youth theatre program that celebrates diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity for all students no matter their ability.