bio
Brittany Ashley grew up in a small town outside Chicago, raised by a revolving door of chaotic babysitters after her mom died. She spent most of her childhood destroying arrogant neighborhood boys in baseball and riding her bike to the video store to rent ROMY & MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION for the thousandth time. After 18 years, she retired her stellar performance as Very Obviously A Straight Person and moved to the city. There, she earned her BA in Literature from the University of Illinois-Chicago, graduated from Second City’s sketch writing program and frequently blogged about being the saddest lesbian in the world.
Brittany’s most well-known for video content she created while at BuzzFeed Motion Pictures for three years. Her credits there include: creating/writing a period comedy Lesbian Princess, writing BuzzFeed’s first monetized web series You Do You which was #1 on iTunes for months and writing/producing/acting in viral short films about topics like abortion and emotional abuse (“Unaware” garnered over 10 million views and 300K shares in less than a week) and writing/producing/acting in 100+ sketches.
Brittany has written on a DreamWorks TV series, wrote and created an LGBTQ news show for Viacom, created three successful podcasts, and developed multiple queer-led features and scripted podcasts for badass companies and placed as a finalist in various esteemed screenwriting competitions. She’s appeared in Gente-fied, a Sundance featured series by MACRO (now a Netflix Series), SeeSo's Take My Wife, played Sydney in MeetCute’s Sexiled, and voiced characters on Netflix’s Twelve Forever.
As a writer, Brittany infuses comedy into the cringey coming-of-age and the tragically bittersweet. Her stories often center female protagonists who try to avoid their emotions by any means necessary…until they implode. As a grief buff, she recently graduated from Death School and is in the third season of her podcast, Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead, where she interviews other guests who have lost a parent, while examining pop culture representations of death, which she plans on adapting into a book. Recreationally, Brittany's an expert in female-fronted rock bands from the 90s and an avid DVD collector.
She’s a member of the WGA and has plenty of scripts ready to rock.
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