Ash Mayfair is an award-winning writer and director based in Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City. In 2018, she wrote, directed, and co-produced her first feature, The Third Wife, which premiered at TIFF. The film won the NETPAC Jury Award and more than 20 awards worldwide, as well as three Spirit Award nominations in the US. Mayfair’s second feature, Skin Of Youth (2025), is one of four winners of the NYU Purple List for the best unproduced screenplays written by graduates. She is an alumna of the Sundance Film Two Lab 2020 and a recipient of the Berlinale Nipkow Fellowship 2020.