After completing The Drama League's director's training program in 1987, Christopher Ashley served as assistant to Evan Yionoulis on Richard Greenberg's one-act "The Author's Voice" which was presented as part of Marathon '87 at the Ensemble Theatre Studio. He graduated to full-fledged stager with the 1989 Off-Broadway play "The Night Hank Williams Died" and then garnered notice directing Anna Deavere Smith in her one-person, multi-character drama "Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities" at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater. Ashley hit his stride in