Ashley
Rapuano
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Actor | Comedian | Fan of Sharks
Ashley Rapuano (she/her/hers) is an actor and comedian based in Los Angeles. With compassion and charisma, she transforms people's perspectives by taking them on an adventure within themselves, others, and the world. She recently moved to LA from New York City, where she wrote and produced her one woman show "Lessons With Lola" about her Filipino grandmother with Dementia, studied and performed comedy at The People's Improv Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade, studied at HB Studio, and starred in several films currently in festival submission.
Most recently, you can catch her on "Homicide City" (click to watch) and "In Pursuit with John Walsh" on the Investigation Discovery channel. Currently she is working on more comedy training and continuing to self produce comedy and films.
If not on screen or doing comedy, Ashley can be found practicing Muay Thai, yoga, meditation, playing guitar, or planning her next hiking or Disneyland adventure. Honestly, she's probably sitting under a tree soaking up sunshine right now. She frequently visits her hometown, Las Vegas, to be with her family and friends. Ashley identifies as Mestiza Filipino, with her mother being from Cebu City, Philippines and her father being Mediterranean. She speaks conversational Spanish and is learning Tagalog & Bisaya. She has a bachelor's degree in Stage and Screen Acting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Ashley believes in equality, justice, human rights, sustainability, Dementia awareness, animal rights, healthy living and is proudly vegan & cruelty free. Social justice is very important to her and she strongly believes in using art to amplify voices and amplify change.
"A lively and engaging presence on camera, a great comic sense, authenticity and warmth." -HB Studios Faculty Panel
PRESS, INTERVIEWS, ETC, click the links below!
Eccentric Artists Featured Artist Journal Entry
More interviews, live performances, stand up, etc are available (at ashleyrapuano@gmail.com) by request.
Contact
The Glick Agency
Theatrical Representation
Barbara Pollans
310-593-6500
GS Entertainment Management
Manager
Todd Zeller
323-860-0270 Ext. 19
@RapuanoAshley
Links To
CASTING SITES
Lessons With Lola
Lessons With Lola is a comedic drama written, produced, and performed by Ashley Rapuano with direction and dramaturgy by Kerry Ipema. The show premiered at the 2018 People's Improv Theater Solocom Festival (NYC) and has done several runs since.
The story is about Lilia Sanchez (Lily), Ashley's grandmother. Written about true events and situations, the production covers topics such as Dementia, Filipino culture and traditions, arranged marriages/mail order brides, domestic abuse, and much more.
LESSONS WITH LOLA tells the story of Lily, a Filipino grandmother living with her daughter's family in the United States. It documents a slice of what families encounter on a daily basis when living with a loved one who suffers from Dementia. Combined with family style love and advice, an evening with Lola is just what you never expected you needed.
A story written with love about love.
"Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure. Laughter is just the honey that sweetens the bitter medicine."
-Hannah Gadsby
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
-Toni Cade Bambara
Land Acknowledgement
Honoring Native Lands
Ashley Rapuano recognizes that she is based on the unceded land of the Southern Paiutes, descendants of the Tudinu, or Desert People, who have lived along the Colorado River since 1100 A.D. and extended north and west into the areas known today as Southern Nevada, Utah, and California. Ashley also recognizes that she has, and continues to, benefit from the use of Southern Paiute land.
If you want to know more about the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe visit their website here.
Ashley acknowledges that she is on the traditional land of the Tongva People. For thousands of years, the Tongva people lived on this land we occupy today, and were considered the most powerful indigenous peoples to inhabit the Los Angeles basin. Along with the Tongva, we also recognize the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Cahuilla, Juaneno, and Luiseno People, for the land that Ashley also occupies around Southern California. We pay respects to their elders past and present. Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us here today.