July 2010: Show Business review of FAMILY DINNER at Samuel Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row says "Mary Ellen Ashley is hilarious as Grandma Jane. Casting is very effective".

October 2009: I have just opened in the NYMF festival in Open The Dark Door playing dual roles: NUN IRENE and MATILDA, a mad woman

February 2009: You saw me as Mrs. Leiber in Goodbye and Good Luck at the York Theatre Staged Reading series in February 2009.

Dec. 14, 2008: I made my lyric-writing debut at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium in a Christmas concert along with 2O other composer/lyricists where I performed THE GIFT OF MRS. SANTA. Click here and you will hear the live performance.

Fall 2008: I can been seen in an episode of the new FOX series "Fringe" as Mrs. Briggs; also, I recently appeared in Post-Mortem, a graduate thesis film. My upcoming film Clear Blue Tuesday will be released in 2009 (check the IMDB page here).

Spring 2008: Equity News reports: "APPEAL RAISES THE ROOF": The Syracuse Stage production of Fiddler on the Roof raised $12,831 in audience appeals, sending $4,270 each to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, DePalmer House — a supportive housing program — and SUNY Upstate Pediatric AIDS Center. ... Equity member Mary Ellen Ashley, who played "Yente" led the appeals each night, often joking with the audience about the show and the characters they'd just met. "It helped them relax with what I was going to ask them to do," she said, "but this is also very personal to me. I lost my best friend to AIDS long ago and one of my dearest friends, Fred Vogel, was one of the founding members of BC/EFA. So I'm happy to contribute in any way I can and am especially proud of what our cast of Fiddler here in Syracuse did."

October 2006: Seen in 50 Million Frenchman directed by Ian Marshall Fisher from London @ Alliance Francaise playing Mrs. Carroll singing Cole Porter's 'The Queen of Terre Haute'

Tale of Two Pizzas Theatrical Release staring Vinnie Pastore & Frank Vincent was released on DVD in November 2006.

June 2006: Completed a smash hit run of Full Monty at Foothills Theatre playing the role of Jeanette.

Began rehearsals in July for Evensong, a play that opened Aug 10th at the Barrow group on West 36th Street.

April 2006: Featured in City Center's Encore Series 70 Girls 70.