Allison is the choreographer of the first all-female team to receive Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize, presented in May, 2021. New York theatre choreography highlights include Goblin Market, Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Feather Gatherers (New Ohio), The Hills Are Alive! (NYMF), Someone To Belong To (NYC Fringe-Overall Excellence Award for Choreography) and a workshop of Pal Joey at HB Studio. Canadian highlights include Holiday Inn at Canada’s Shaw Festival, Something Wonderful at the Charlottetown Festival, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and the Canadian premiere of Hello Again both at the Tarragon Theatre. Allison was an original member of the Musical Theater Collective at 92Y and has presented choreography at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Mark Morris Dance Group, Gibney Dance Center, fFIDA International Dance Festival, The Brick Theater and the inaugural RHI-Think initiative in Portugal. Film/TV choreography includes the Oscar-winning short film, Curfew, the feature-length Before I Disappear (IFC Films) the NBC series, Believe and the Steven Soderbergh series, The Knick (assistant choreo). As a director of new works, credits include Memory Home (HB Studio Resident Artist, 2019), The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World and President’s Day (both for Greenhouse Ensemble), What’s YOUR Problem?! (Wild Project/Ars Nova) and Director/Choreo/Concept for The Tchaikovsky Vignettes (HB Studio Resident Artist, 2016). Off-Broadway assistant work includes Make Mine Manhattan (Associate, Connelly Theatre), Freckleface Strawberry (Associate, New World Stages) and an SDCF Observership with Kathleen Marshall on Bells Are Ringing for City Center Encores. Allison is an SDC Associate member. An avid teacher, Allison has taught Tap at Broadway Dance Center, Abrons Arts Center and two of Canada’s most prestigious performing arts colleges: Randolph Academy and Sheridan College. Allison completed the Uta Hagen Teacher Training at HB Studio in 2016 and is currently on the dance faculty at AMDA and Tom Todoroff Conservatory. Allison is also a Level 1 Gyrotonic Trainer. As an actress, highlights include Trying at Cape May Stage, directed by Austin Pendleton (NJ Arts Top Ten Theatre, 2015), Suddenly, Last Summer (also directed by Austin Pendleton) and See Bob Run at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (Winner, Outstanding Performance in a Solo Show). Classical work includes Calpurnia and Artemidora in a highly physicalized production of Julius Caesar with Titan Theatre Company (Queens Theatre), directed by Jack Young (Artistic Director-Houston Shakespeare Festival) and Io in Theodora Skipitares’ Prometheus Within at La MaMa. Also at La MaMa, Allison performed in Ping Chong’s Angels of Swedenborg, opening the Tony-Award winning La MaMa’s 50th anniversary season and touring to the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, MA. Canadian Theatre favorites include Fire and Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival and the National Arts Center. As a dancer, Allison has performed at some of the most exciting venues in North America. Favorites include Tap City -the Main Event (Symphony Space), the national tour of Tap/percussion show RhythMatix and performing with Phish on New Year’s Eve at Madison Square Garden. La MaMa International Directors Symposium 2020, GagaHomeLab 2020, Directors Lab West ‘17, NYFA - Immigrant Artist Mentorship Fellow 2017, Cape May Stage National Playwrights Symposium - Scholarship Recipient 2018.