Ash Christian

Ash Christian was an actor, director and producer who, at twenty, directed, produced and starred in Fat Girls (2006), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, sold to Regent Entertainment and later played in theaters. MTV Networks optioned it as a pilot and hired him to write and direct the series and serve as executive producer. He was a co-producer of the Broadway musical Next to Normal, which earned eleven Tony nominations and three awards and took the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2010. His later features included the dark comedy Mangus! and Petunia, which he co-wrote and directed. He produced the comedy Nate & Margaret, the Crackle series Cleaners, commercials and music videos, and the musical film Hello Again, and won a 2014 Emmy Award for the web series mI Promise. He died in 2020.