Jess Allen

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Bio

(Performer)

Jessica comes to NYC via Bogota, Colombia and the best state ever Massachusetts - GO PATS, SOX, CELTICS, BRUINS! She has been improvising all over the city for the last 10 years. She has trained with Paul Sills, Armando Diaz and at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Jessica is a very proud member of Neutrino the creators of Neutrino: The Video Projects which took them to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the HBO Comedy Festival and won them Ensemble of the Year award at the Chicago Improv Festival. She is also lucky to be part of an amazing group called Ms Jackson, winner of the ECNY's Best Improv Group, and currently she is in the Sleepover, the Deconstruction, and the Made Up Musical at the Magnet. Jessica has written & performed two one person shows, American Standard & Staunch. She has studied at the Boston Conservatory, the New Actors Workshop with George Morrison & Mike Nichols and T Schreiber Studios with Terry Schreiber. Her dream roles are Mama Rose in Gypsy and Karen in Steven Soderbergh's 'Out of Sight'. (cause they're going to remake that movie right? with everyone in the original except for J Lo....right?)