Allison is a figure skating coach and choreographer, a filmmaker, and an activist at the intersection of sports and the performing arts. She grew up in Maine spending most of her time on the ice, practicing for competitions and (her favorite) ice shows. But she couldn’t resist the stage and also made time to perform in musicals and stage manage for community theatre and concerts.
Moved by curiosity, Allison has dabbled in yoga, politics, crisis work, mountain biking, and beyond but youth and community development has been a thread through it all. She studied Leadership at USM with a focus on performance artists as community leaders then spent most of her 20s in New York City working with social justice activists in the wellness industry. Allison went on to coach and direct figure skating programs in Brooklyn and Harlem, getting the chance to choreograph programs for Prospect Park, Rockefeller Center, and Reebok, before finding her way back to Maine.
She continues to sit on the Laureus: Sport for Good Leadership Council in NYC but Maine is her home and happy place. Allison loves the space to play with her dog, the community she’s found as a member of the PortFringe committee and Maine Film Association, coaching skaters aged 3-103 at the local rinks, and now teaching at Stages!
Allison joined the STAGES team in 2023. She is a Teaching Artist, co-leading The Hero’s Journey – the STAGES 2023-24 Young Performers Ensemble.
