--- title: Ashley Park is on the TIME100 Next 2024 List description: Find out how Ashley Park is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-02T11:22:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-07T21:06:03.822Z article:section: World og:title: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ashley Park og:description: Find out why Ashley Park is on this year’s TIME100 Next list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55b56f7874e8a7b/698a5b96b21a9c091e50a8be/time100-next-2024-ashley-park.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ashley Park og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ashley Park twitter:description: Find out why Ashley Park is on this year’s TIME100 Next list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55b56f7874e8a7b/698a5b96b21a9c091e50a8be/time100-next-2024-ashley-park.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 02, 2024 # Ashley Park by [Tina Fey](https://time.com/author/tina-fey/) ## Tina Fey  Ashley Park Ashley ParkLeeor Wild—Trunk Archive Ashley Park vibrates with energy and warmth like a downed power line on a beautiful summer night. Spending time with Ashley is a cross between Paris Fashion Week, one of those dancing inflatables outside a car wash, and a TikTok compilation of “funniest jump scares.” I first met Ashley when she auditioned for the role of Gretchen Wieners in _Mean Girls_ on Broadway. She got the part immediately and went on to be nominated for a Tony. Her singing, comic timing, and heart-­wrenching vulnerability were everything we needed. But on her way out of the room, she also stopped to make sure our director Casey Nicholaw knew that she could dance, and that he could give her as much ­challenging ­choreography as he wanted. So Ashley spent the next two years jumping around in impossibly high heels. She’s basically been jumping around the world in impossibly high heels ever since. With breakout roles on _Emily in Paris_, _Joy Ride_, _Girls5eva_, _Beef_, and _Only Murders in the Building_, Ashley’s presence in a project signals that what you’re watching will be fun, fresh, and relevant. She is an ultra­modern woman—smart, kind, relatable, and uniquely beautiful. She works super hard while remaining completely at play, which is what makes her such a pleasure to watch. I predict Ashley’s career will be so long that we’ll still be watching when she has to switch to flats. _Fey is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, and producer_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/"},"headline":"Ashley Park","datePublished":"2024-10-02T11:22:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-07T21:06:03.822Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/","keywords":["list","franchise","Magazine","TIME 100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55b56f7874e8a7b/698a5b96b21a9c091e50a8be/time100-next-2024-ashley-park.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tina Fey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tina-fey/"}],"creator":"Tina Fey","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55b56f7874e8a7b/698a5b96b21a9c091e50a8be/time100-next-2024-ashley-park.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023646/ashley-park/","name":"Ashley Park"}}]}] ```