My name is Garrett Allen. I am a Brooklyn based artist and director working in multiple mediums and disciplines including performance, theater/drama, video, text, and sound. My current practices center liveness and living, live--presence, ephemerality, activation, engagement, and feeling. I employ materials and processes meditating, questioning, and excavating human/ity, identity (especially ones I live within or in connection with), difference, and repression in the radical present. I excavate the unexplored and give voice to the unsaid. All toward liberating and liberation.
I have shown original work at the Knockdown Center, School of Visual Arts NYC, Alpha Space, Prelude Festival, Spectrum NYC, and The Invisible Dog. I have created and directed performances at the School of Drama at Yale, Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, and University of the Arts Philadelphia. I have worked as an assistant/associate director with Lileana Blain-Cruz, Sarah Benson, Bill Rauch, Carl Cofield, and David Mendizabál.
From 2020-2024, I co-founded and co-led LEGACY: A Black Queer Production Collective.
I occasionally DJ and share drawings/zines under the moniker GARE.
I received an M.F.A. in Directing from the School of Drama at Yale University and a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology with a minor in Theater, Dance, and Media from Harvard University.
I have something to remind you.
Keep shining, star.
upcoming:
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contact: garrettcarterallen(at)gmail(dot)com
resume/cv available upon request
photos by Tess Voelker