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Allison was named one of 2015 United States Presidential Scholar's, most influential teachers by the United States Secretary Department of Education. Allison served as the Department Head of Movement, Dance and Devising, where she also taught movement at the Professional Performing Arts School of New York City. She has taught intensive Meisner-technique acting courses for both The School of Cinema and Performing Arts and The National Theatre for the Handicapped and was a Teaching Artist with Urban Arts Partnership for 8 years in New York City. Allison is also a Theater Director and leads her Emotion in Motion workshops, both as a technique for devising multi-media theatre and as a therapeutic process. Allison has directed at numerous theatres in New York City, regionally and internationally, and received mentorship, as an Assistant Director at the Steppenwolf Theatre for several years. She is an on-going Resident Director with New York University’s First Look Theatre Company, a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors' Lab and a 2004 SSDC Traube Fellowship nominee.
In her role as National Healing & Wellness Consultant & Practitioner for the Joyful Heart Foundation, Allison co-developed and led programs, workshops and retreats for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse and the healers working on the frontlines of trauma, addressing vicarious trauma.
Allison was the Founder of Creative Seeds, a non-profit organization, which was focused on working with communities through creative arts immersion projects and initiatives in both South Africa and the United States. Allison is a yoga teacher with specialized training in yoga for trauma. She taught Vinyasa Yoga at Sonic Yoga in New York City, Bhakti Yoga Shala in Los Angeles, BODY of Santa Fe and was the resident yoga teacher for the Santa Fe Opera and Align Brooklyn. Allison currently teaches at Down Under Yoga School in Boston. Allison completed her Kundalini Yoga Therapy Certification module 1 and Level 1 Trauma Resiliency Model certification. In addition, Allison has a certification as a historical trauma specialist and in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.
"You really have made such a tremendous and profound impact on my experience as an actor but more importantly as a living breathing being. The things I experienced in some of your classes have been the focus of college essays and have served as reminders of why I continue to give so much of myself to this craft, allow others to give themselves to me, and why this craft matters. You inspire, awaken and ignite the passions and silenced wants in all that you encounter."
DOMINIQUE THORNE, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
