Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and multidisciplinary theater-maker. Her stage plays have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, WPLab, Portland Center Stage, Jungle Theater, Studio Theatre, and KC Rep, among other places, and her radio plays and scripted podcasts have been produced by Audible/Fresh Produce Media, United Artists, Woolly Mammoth, and Playing On Air. She currently holds commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Portland Center Stage, and is an alumna of EST/Youngblood, the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. Awards include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Comedic Playwriting Prize, recognition on the Kilroys List, and a Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship via the late Lark. Her writing life has been supported by fellowships to MacDowell and Ucross, as well as scholarships to Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers Conference. She teaches on the playwriting faculty at the latter, and is a resident playwright with Colt Coeur.
Her prose has been published in the Kilroys anthology, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Epiphany, Catapult, and Literary Hub, where she is a staff writer. As an actor, recent credits include the off-Broadway world premieres of Abe Koogler’s Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb) and Talene Monahon’s The Good John Proctor (Bedlam Theatre, New Yorker’s “Best Theatre of 2023”); her own play, Redwood (Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Center Stage), Gloria: A Life (DR2), and New Saloon’s Minor Character (Invisible Dog; New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Ensemble). She’s developed new plays with/at Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Theater Company, New Georges, The Civilians, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Joe’s Pub, The Flea, New York Stage and Film, The Bushwick Starr, and the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation, and old plays with Classic Stage Company. Her voice work has been featured on Playing On Air, and in Next Chapter Podcasts’ Henry V.
She is currently acting in a Julia May Jonas world premiere, A Woman Among Women. We run at the Bushwick Starr through November 17th.