Allyson Currin

Allyson Currin (Playwright/Actor) is the award-winning author of over forty plays including the musical The Silver Belles, which received its world premiere at Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre (composer Matt Conner and lyricist Stephen Gregory Smith), followed by runs at Virginia Repertory Theatre and other regional theatres. Her comedy Sooner/Later premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse (for which she has written a commissioned play for young audiences, as well), followed by an acclaimed run at Mosaic Theater of DC. Other plays of hers have premiered or been produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Avant Bard, Imagination Stage, Washington Shakespeare Company, Pinky Swear Productions, Source Theatre Company, Doorway Arts Ensemble, American Century Theatre, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Charter Theatre, The Lansburgh Theatre and The Strathmore Arts Center, among others.

Her play Rejoicing in Broken Pieces, which was commissioned by The Catholic University of America and the International Medievalists’ Conference, premiered in 2023.  She has also partnered in creating original new operatic works with Musica Aperta (including the national tour of The Interior Castle) and The In-Series (including a reimagined version of The Magic Flute), amongst others.  Her new play Radio Free America is a 2026 Semi-Finalist with The Eugene O’Neill Center (she was also a Semi-Finalist at The O’Neill in 2020 and 2016).

Currin is a Founding Member of The Welders, a DC-based playwrights’ collective, which received the Helen Hayes’ John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company in 2016, and she has twice been nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (for Church of the Open Mind and Amstel in Tel Aviv). She has also won The Gold Medallion, the highest regional teaching honor The Kennedy Center awards.

As an actor, Currin has appeared at Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center and many others, as well as in television and film. She is a member of Actors Equity Association, SAG/AFTRA and The Dramatists Guild (and is a former DC Representative for the Guild). She is on the theatre faculty at George Washington University and is the former Head of the MFA Playwriting Program at The Catholic University of America. Please visit her website at allysoncurrin.com.