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California Institute of the Arts

Ashley Cole Bruce

Pronouns: School of Theater

Special Faculty, Experience Design and Production

Ashley Cole Bruce Headshot
Email address: abruce@calarts.edu
Phone number: 661-253-7853
Office address:
E123O
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • MFA
    The Herb Alpert School of Music, CalArts
  • Miami University

Ashley Cole Bruce is a Senior Producer for Walt Disney Imagineering. Ashley hails from Ohio where she received her undergraduate degree from Miami University. She moved out to SoCal to earn her MFA in Scenic Art and Scenic Design from California Institute of the Arts. She has maintained ties with the CalArts School of Theater as a member of the Experience Design and Production faculty for 15 years, teaching undergraduate and graduate design courses. 

Outside of teaching, Ashley worked in film and television production for a few years, then went to Walt Disney Imagineering before moving onto 20th Century Fox, where she was the Creative Director of Global Live and Location-based Entertainment. Now back at Imagineering, she has had the privilege of being a Principal Production Designer on several projects, including Hong Kong Arendelle: The World of Frozen, before moving into producing.