Dramaturg, translator and social worker, N P Ashley is an Associate Professor of English at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Performance Studies, Cultural Theory, Student Movements, and Shakespeare Adaptations are his areas. His Ph.D is on the sixties' campus youth culture in Kerala from the University of Hyderabad (2025). He has been a visiting researcher at Queen's University, Belfast, UK in 2009. The plays he has worked as dramaturge have been performed at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Brisbane World Theatre Festival, Norwegian Embassy's Delhi Ibsen Festival, Abu Dhabi Sakthi Theatre Festival and Delhi National School of Drama Festival. 

Dr. Ashley is the conceptualizer of Keralan Shakespeares project and a member of the Shakespeare Association of America. His latest article, co-authored with Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett, on Critical Caste Studies and Shakespeare Cinemas appeared in Johns Hopkins University's journal, Shakespeare Bulletin (2025). He has also contributed on campus theatre to the Arden Shakespeare's volume on Women and Indian Shakespeares (2022). He was the consultant editor of the Pearson ICSE textbook series, Lighthouse, and has translated the selected stories of O. Henry into Malayalam. He contributes, in English and Malayalam- his first language, on higher education. 

Dr. Ashley has been a social worker for Dayapuram Educational and Cultural Centre for 23 years and is the curator of Dayapuram Basheer Museum (2024). He is also an advisor in conceptualization to Habitat Schools, UAE (2014 onwards).