Janet Allard is an American playwright and theatre educator. Allard was born and raised in

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. She currently teaches in the Theatre Department at the

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. Allard's plays have been produced at The Guthrie Lab,

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Mixed Blood Theatre Company The Mixed Blood Theatre Company is a professional multiracial theatre company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1976 by artistic director Jack Reuler, to explore race via the use of theater. History Jack Reuler founded Mixed Blood in 19 ...

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Yale Repertory Theatre Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented student ...

, The Yale Cabaret, The Women's Project and Productions, Perseverance Theatre, The House Of Candles, and Access Theater in New York City, as well as internationally in Ireland, England, Greece, and New Zealand. She has twice been awarded a Jerome Fellowship by

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in Minneapolis and has been a

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Fellow and a

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Fellow (1998, New Zealand and the South Pacific). Her plays and productions include ''Pool Boy'', which premiered at

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in 2010; ''Vrooommm!'', which premiered at the

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in New York City in 2007 and was later produced by Triad Stage in Winston-Salem, NC in 2016; and ''Privates'' in ''Bill of (W)Rights'' at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2004. ''The Unknown: a silent musical'' was developed with P73 Productions, garnered an award from the Jonathan Larson Foundation, and was presented at Joe's Pub and the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2005.

Publications

* ''Vrooommm! A NASComedy,'' Samuel French * ''Incognito, Fashionistas, Speed Date, Untold Crimes of Insomniacs, Painted Rain, Loyal, Privates'' in ''Bill of (W)Rights,'' and ''A Christmas Carol'', Playscripts.com. * ''Shakespeare In Mind'', Dramatic Publishing Company. * ''My Mother#*^%#! College Life,'' Dramatic Publishing Company (in press 2017).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allard, Janet Living people American dramatists and playwrights University of North Carolina at Greensboro faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American women dramatists and playwrights American women academics 21st-century American women educators