Allison is a director, choreographer and writer based in Brattleboro, VT. Her work blends story, connection, movement and feeling; creating multidisciplinary work that expands genres, using skill in service of story.
Allison's self-produced work includes several original circus productions including CYCLES, with Matica Arts, This is Artstagram! and Special Relativity, co-directed by Stacey Strange. Additionally, Allison has written and choreographed circus work for ARTFARM, Oddfellows Playhouse, The Children's Circus of Middletown and Air Temple Arts.
Allison served as the director of Circophony, a youth circus troupe in Middletown, CT from 2019-2024. During her tenure she directed several original circus works including Circus Botanicus: The Secret Life of Plants, Spysight is 20/20, The Things That Go Creep..., Cirque du Schooleil: Operation Snakeout and Enjoy the Silence.
Allison recently finished touring Goodbye Party: The Show, written in collaboration with Big Teeth Performance Collective and closed the show Cirque-opsia, an original circus production written for Thrive Movement Studio.
Show poster for Circophony's winter 2024 mainstage production Enjoy the Silence. Poster art by Dan Schmidt.
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