Ashley Boling, former Director of the Telluride Institute, has lived in Telluride for over 16 years and has been active on the stage, in the classroom and in the San Juan Mountains.

Locally, he has worked with the Telluride Institute, the San Miguel River Watershed Project, Telluride Academy, the Telluride School District, various Summer festivals and KOTO radio. As a watershed Instructor, Ashley has spent time in the Nucla/Naturita and Norwood schools researching, writing, rehearsing and performing original plays about the founding of both Nucla and Norwood.