BIOGRAPHY

Sherri Allen is a San Diego-based actor, director, and teacher with extensive credits in local and regional theatre.  She has appeared in plays and musicals with PCPA Theaterfest, Santa Rosa Summer Repertory Theatre, Moonlight Stages, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Poor Players Theatre Company, and Vaudeville Express Melodrama Theatre; tours and outreaches with Old Globe Theatre's Education Department, Lamb's Players Touring Company, Traveling Lantern Theatre Company, Casey/Woody Entertainment; and understudied roles at San Diego Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Asolo Theatre Company.  She was also a performer specialist and show captain at Legoland for over three years.  Additionally, Sherri has been published in The Actor’s Other Career Book: Interviews with Acting Pros, and An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology. She is a member of San Diego Actors Alliance. 

TRAINING

As an undergraduate, Ms. Allen studied Shakespeare and British Theatre in London with Gordon Scammel of the Essex Repertory Company and Lynne McVernon of The Young Vic Theatre.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama (with distinction in Acting) from San Diego State University where she was the recipient of the Laurel and Hardy Scholarship Award for achievement in acting. After graduating, she interned as an actor at PCPA Theaterfest (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts). She went on to do graduate work on a full scholarship at Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, where she studied with legendary director and acting teacher José Quintero.  In 2003 she earned a teaching credential in English and drama from California State University at San Marcos. 

TEACHING/DIRECTING

When she isn't performing, Ms. Allen enjoys working with those who share her love for the arts, and has been a Teaching Artist with: Playwrights Project; Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center; San Diego Lyric Opera; and the Theatre School at North Coast Rep.  She has directed student showcases for all of these arts organizations, and is currently a Teaching Artist with J*Company Youth Theatre, San Diego Junior Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse. Additionally, she is associate faculty at MiraCosta College and teaches Fine Arts courses in the history of theatre, dance, art, and music; as well as improvisation classes and  the golden age of radio.  

SPECIAL SKILLS

Piano, Dancing (ballet, tap, jazz, salsa, lindy-hop); Dialects (American Southern, Cockney, Standard British, Irish, and Brooklyn).