After Ashley is a 2004 play written by Gina Gionfriddo

Gina Gionfriddo

Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer.For her writing she has received an Obie Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has written for both the stage and for television...

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The play was the hit of the 2004 Humana Festival of New American Plays

Humana Festival of New American Plays

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 in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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 where it received its world premiere in March 2004. It was then produced in New York in February 2005 at the Vineyard Theatre

Vineyard Theatre

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. This production was directed by Terry Kinney

Terry Kinney

Terry Kinney is an American actor and theatre director, and is a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry.-Early life:...

 and starred Kieran Culkin, Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Paquin's first critically successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 at the age of 11 – the second youngest winner in history...

, Dana Eskelson

Dana Eskelson

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, and Grant Shaud

Grant Shaud

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. For his performance as Justin, Culkin won an Obie Award

Obie Award

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 in 2005. Subsequent productions took place in Washington D.C. in September 2005, and Philadelphia in February 2006.

The play was one of three finalists for the Steinberg New Play Award in 2005, as well as the John Gassner Playwriting Award.

Characters

• Justin Hammond
• Ashley Hammond, Justin's mother, a part-time art-teacher.
• Alden Hammond, Justin's father. He is an education reporter when the play opens, but later becomes an author and a television host.
• David Gavin, television personality and producer.
• Julie Bell, student at the University of Central Florida
  University of Central Florida
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• Roderick Lord