Greg Allen

Greg Allen is the creator of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) and Founding Director of all six international theatre companies (Chicago, NYC, Montreal, San Francisco, London and Detroit) dedicated to the practice of his performance aesthetic, which he mischievously calls Neo-Futurism.

Oft imitated but never equaled, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) opened in Chicago in 1988 and ran three times per week, 50 weeks per year, for 28 years until closing in 2016. This first collection of plays and its unique copyrighted format has had over 100 productions per year around the world since first published in 2015, from Edinburgh to Tanzania, China to Australia, United Arab Emirates to Dickinson, North Dakota. Greg continues to teach Neo-Futurism at universities and in residencies across the nation and abroad so that those interested can create their own Neo-Futurist productions.

Mr. Allen has also authored 85 other produced plays, including: The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, The Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (The Wooden Boy) as Told by Frankenstein’s Monster (The Wretched Creature), Sleeping with the Prince of Darkness: The Imagined Pillow-Talk of FBI Agent John O’Neill, A Child’s History of Bombing, H2O and K., his award-winning adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial.

His collaboration The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett as Found in an Envelope (Partially Burned) in a Dustbin in Paris Labeled “Never To Be Performed. Never. Ever! Or I’ll Sue! I’ll Sue From the Grave!!!” has had 12 sold-out award-winning international productions, and his legendary production of all nine acts and seven hours of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude inspired hecklers and immediate standing ovations at the Goodman Theatre’s 2009 Eugene O’Neill Festival.

Mr. Allen teaches at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center and in residencies all over the world. Contact him to arrange an interview, workshop, residency or whatever else interests you at [email protected].