Welcome to Allison Vincent's  Digital Portfolio

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Writer, director, performer, teacher.

Allison Vincent is an award-winning performer, director, writer, deviser, and teacher known for creating new works, physical theatre, and gender-bending performances.  She has been honored to collaborate with companies and theaters across the Twin Cities, including The History Theater, Jon Ferguson Theater, The Four Humors, Mainly Me, The Illusion, The Guthrie, Frank Theatre, Sod House, Strike Theatre, Theatre Novi Most, Transatlantic Love Affair, the University of Minnesota, and Walking Shadow.  In addition to performing, Allison is a co-artistic director and founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair, a teaching artist at the Guthrie Theater and Loft Literary Center, and has collaborated as a writer on over twenty produced scripts.  In 2022 Allison wrote and performed a solo storytelling show about caretaking for her father succumbing to dementia as a Pillsbury House + Theatre’s Naked Stages Fellow.  Recently she’s had her scripts published in The Empty Room, Rejection Letters, Dirty Girls Come Clean, and Roi Fainéant Press. Her short fiction can be found at Hypertext, and her short story, “Bag It Up,” received an honorable mention in the 90th Annual Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest and was published in Unsettling Reads’ Summer Bludgeon anthology.  She teaches at the University of Minnesota in the Writing Studies Department’s First Year Writing Program.

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