Ashton Malcolm
Ashton Malcolm is an actor, theatremaker and creative facilitator based on Kaurna Country.
Her credits include STC and STCSA: The Dictionary of Lost Words (2023); STCSA and Country Arts SA: Euphoria (2023, 2021); Windmill Theatre Company: Grug (2021), Grug and the Rainbow (2023, 2016-2018); Windmill Theatre Company and STCSA: Rumpelstiltskin (2016); Patch Theatre Company: The Lighthouse (Adelaide Festival 2020), Yo Diddle Diddle (2017-2018); Restless Dance Company: Guttered (Syd Fest 2023, Bris Fest 2022, Adel Fest 2021), Intimate Space (Seoul Street Art Festival 2019, Bleach Festival 2018, Adelaide Festival 2017); RUMPUS Theatre: The Wolves (2019); Tiny Bricks and Brink Productions: Deluge (Adelaide Festival, 2016); Vitalstatistix Theatre Company: Cutaway: A Ceremony (2013); Vitalstatistix and HotHouse Theatre: Quiet Faith (2014/2015); STCSA: Othello (2014).
Ashton trained at the Flinders University Drama Centre; graduating in 2009 with First Class Honours, the Malcolm Fox Drama Prize and a University Medal. Since then she has undertaken further training intensives with Shakespeare and Company in the USA, and Force Majeure in Sydney. She worked for the Starlight Children’s Foundation for nine years; and has since undertaken further studies at Flinders University and Melbourne University with a focus on Arts in Health, and specifically on creating live performances in hospital environments.
