Ashley Rapuano

Ashley Rapuano Sanchez is a Los Angeles & Las Vegas based creative. She is a working actor with a degree in Stage and Screen Acting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and with additional schooling from HB Studios (NYC), East West Players (LA), and more. She has done standup, improv, and sketch comedy in New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and internationally - having studied at Upright Citizen's Brigade, The People's Improv Theater, Vegas Theater Hub and with many many more esteemed comedy teachers. Her solo show about her grandmother with Dementia, Lessons with Lola, sold out in Las Vegas after an NYC premiere, with several following runs.

Ashley is ½ of the Take the Skies indie rock band duo - playing rhythm guitar, drums and additional percussion, as well as singing for the band. They record out of Hammsterden Records, owned by her husband Jared Sanchez, who is also their producer. Her and her band mate, Eric Connell, are influenced by several different genres and have been playing music together for over 10 years.

Along with performing and doing comedy, Ashley is often a host / MC at live events. Aside from hosting live events, Ashley hosts her own show entitled "Tremendous Talk" - where she speaks to AAPI professionals in the industry through her job at Tremendous Communications.

Ashley is a publicist and marketing manager at Tremendous Communications, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to celebrating AAPI excellence in entertainment and media. She proudly works to highlight the AAPI community through all she does both at work and outside of work. Past work with Tremendous includes A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once, Jordan Peele's Nope, Netflix's Never Have I Ever, and much, much more.

With all that being said, Ashley is an artist at heart in every way. She's constantly creating and ideating with pure ambition of what's to come. In her passion for highlighting AAPI stories, she has begun to produce both live and virtual events, as well as produce and all around assist in the filmmaking process. Giving a voice to marginalized communities is her overall goal. Whatever she works on, she's all in. Ashley is also a co-facilitator and producer for Filipinx Actors Barkada, a bi-weekly acting workshop and community for Filipino and Filipino American creatives.

Ashley is proudly Filipino & Mediterranean American, vegan, and vocal about both animal and human rights. She believes art is a pathway for social change. She loves Halloween, the family's husky named Amiyah, taking walks with her husband, and a good hot sauce.