Local theater powerhouses join forces for ‘Ghost’ and ‘Funeral Party’

Audiences may remember Ashleigh Ann Gardner from Space, a 2016 fan favorite at the Orlando Fringe. Now the Orlando-based actor and playwright is back with Funeral Party and Ghost, two one-act plays she wrote that local theater impresario Jeremy “White Rabbit” Seghers is producing as a double bill. Gardner also directs Ghost, in which a woman is coincidentally and awkwardly reunited with a guy she ghosted after a one-night hookup. And she stars in Funeral Party, a drama about mourning that features “drinks, Chinese food, dancing, coffee” and a clandestine after-hours visit to a crematorium. That’s what we call a triple threat.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday | Marshall Ellis Theatre, 1300 La Quinta Drive | eventbrite.com | $18 

This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2018.