John Allee (born September 11, 1963) is an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known for playing the role of Pasha on the Golden Globe nominated Starz limited series ''

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'' (2015), and for his stage work in

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Career

Acting

Allee started acting at an early age. In 1980, while still in high school, he appeared in Los Angeles in the West Coast premiere of

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' ''Runaways.''. The following year he created the role of Douglas Spaulding in ''Dandelion Wine'',

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's own musical adaptation of his novel (Colony Theatre), and appeared in a featured "bit" alongside comedy legend

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in the movie ''

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''. Soon after, he was cast as Teen Charlie Chaplin in

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's pre-Broadway musical Chaplin (written with Stanley Ralph Ross), in which Newley played the silent film icon as an older man. ''Chaplin'' was directed by choreographer

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and closed after its out of town try-out at the

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, having lost $4 million on the road. Allee's work in the theatre also includes playing Thomas Cromwell in '' A Man for All Seasons'', Banjo in ''

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'', ''

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'' (winner of the 2018

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for Best Production of a Play in an Intimate Theatre and a 2018 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nominee for Best Production)(all at Actors Co-op), '' Cloud 9'' (winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production), ''

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'' starring

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, ''

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'', '' Peace in Our Time'' (winner of the 2012 Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play in an Intimate Theatre), ''

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'' (all at Antaeus Theatre Company), the U.S. premiere of

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's ''My Wife's Husband'' (Little Fish Theatre), Seymour in '' Little Shop of Horrors'' (

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in the West Coast premiere of Stephen Sondheim and

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's ''Assassins'' opposite Patrick Cassidy as

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(

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), ''Alone Together'' starring

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(

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), Puck in

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's opera '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' directed two times by Gordon Davidson ( Los Angeles Opera, (1988 and again in 1992), and two other productions of the same directed by John Copley, conducted by

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, with Sylvia McNair as Tytania,

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as Oberon, and

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as Bottom (

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and Houston Grand Opera), and ''One Thousand Cranes'' ( Mark Taper Forum). Allee appeared on television in the recurring role of Pasha on the Golden Globe Awards nominated Starz limited series ''Flesh and Bone'' (2015) from Breaking Bad writer and executive producer

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Music

Allee is also a songwriter, recording artist, and composer of musical plays, including an adaptation of

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's ''The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear'' and ''Poet's Garden'' (both written with Gary Matanky), the latter of which premiered in Los Angeles at The Matrix Theatre in 2001 under the direction of Michael Michetti. Allee has performed in cabarets, clubs, and theatres and has had his music featured Off-Broadway, in regional theatre, and on national TV, including '' Candid Camera''. Recording under the "nom-de-pop," Johnnye Allee, he released his first CD in 2007, ''Unless it Isn't'', a collection of folk-pop/roots-rock originals which American Songwriter magazine called "a stunning suite of songs." He released a follow up album, ''Expect Delays'', in 2016. A third album, ''Bardfly'', was released in 2019, on which Allee adapted songs from the plays of William Shakespeare into a jazz vernacular.

Awards

Allee has received a variety of awards throughout his career for both acting and music, including the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble for ''Cloud 9'', an Ovation Award nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for ''33 Variations'', Robby Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical (''Dandelion Wine''), Best Ensemble Performance (''Cloud 9''), Best Supporting Actor in a Drama (''33 Variations''), and Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy (''The Man Who Came to Dinner''), the ASCAP/Sammy Cahn Award for excellence in lyric writing, a Back Stage Garland Award for Musical Score for ''Poet's Garden'', and he was a finalist for the

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' Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre for ''The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear.''

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