Blackfriars

Allison Glenzer*

THIS SEASON: Lady Macbeth, Hecate in Macbeth; Queen in Cymbeline, Katherine, Bernadine in The Jew of Malta; Lady Would-be in Volpone; Hecate, Francisca in The Witch.
PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Paulina, Time in The Winter’s Tale; Nurse, Lady Montague, Chorus in Romeo and Juliet; Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Octavia, Iras in Antony and Cleopatra. Blush and Swoon Tour: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet; Jaques in As You Like It; Clown in The Winter’s Tale; Ghost of Christmas Present in An American Christmas Carol, 1852.
OTHER THEATRES: Favorite roles – National Tour: A Body in Motion (various roles) play based on Howard Zehr’s Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims, included the touring of maximum security prisons; Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare & Company, MA; Tina Packer dir.); Lucetta in The Two Gentleman of Verona, Natasha in The Three Sisters, Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar (Swine Palace Theater, Louisiana); Doctor Healy in Esperanza Rising (Orlando Heritage Festival, FL); Romeo and Juliet: Actors in Concert (Shakespeare & Company with The Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia State Symphony); Vita Sackville West in Virginia (New Theater); Sally in Talley’s Folly (Brooks Theater, SC).
OTHER CREDITS: Director: Fall Festival of Shakespeare (Shakespeare & Company) King Lear and Macbeth; Managing Director The Vortex Theater Company, Sanford Meisner Theater (NYC); Playwright in Residence/Director Trinity School children’s Theater Program (NYC).
EDUCATION: MFA in Performance Louisiana State University, BA Double major English and Speech Communications double minor Theater and Film, Clemson University in South Carolina.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.