Jo Harvey Allen at Paramount Theatre

Fri Nov 17 2023 at 09:00 pm

Stateside at the Paramount | Austin

Paramount Theatre
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Jo Harvey Allen at Paramount Theatre
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Stateside at The Paramount Presents
An Evening with Jo Harvey Allen

Stateside at The Paramount
Friday, November 17, 2023
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Join us for an evening of stories with Jo Harvey Allen from her book and play Homerun. Homerun is about leaving base, striking out, getting up and trying to get home. Wacky, hilarious and poignant, full of miracles, risk, courage, and love of the game.
About Jo Harvey Allen: Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, songwriter, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet, and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher). She was featured in The Homesman (Cannes 2014, dir. Tommy Lee Jones), Women Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble, and was nominated Best Lead Actress, International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Berlin for her co-starring role in The Other Kind (2015, dir. Rosalyn Rosen), Los Angeles Film Review Honorable Mention for Best Feature Film. Allen appeared most recently in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese (Cannes, May 2023).

She has written, starred, and toured her acclaimed one-woman plays throughout the US and abroad, including the off-Broadway productions of A Moment's Hesitation (Dance Theater Workshop & The New School, NYC), Counter Angel (The New School, NYC), and As it is in Texas (St. Ann’s Church, NYC). Her other one-woman plays include Hally Lou (originally produced by Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO., MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.), Duckblind (Cornet Theater, L.A.), and Homerun (Remembrance Through the Performing Arts, Austin, TX.). She co-wrote and starred in Chippy...Diaries of a West Texas Hooker (American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, PA and Lincoln Center, NYC). Allen co-wrote, starred, and toured the opera Pioneer (Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC), Do You Know What Your Children Are Tonight? (Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; Theater Artaud, San Francisco), and Covenant (Ann Hamilton’s Tower, Oliver Ranch Foundation, Geyserville, CA). She wrote and directed Every Three Minutes (Guthrie Theater Lab), and co-starred in Leon, Lena, & Lenz, written by Georg Büchner, directed by Joanne Akalatis (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN).

She is married to artist, singer/songwriter Terry Allen (1962-present) and has starred in all of his radio and theater pieces, including Juarez, The Embrace...Advanced To Fury, Anti-Rabbit Bleeder…A Biography, Reunion, Warboy (and the backboard blues), Ghost Ship Rodez, and MemWars Live.
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Stateside at the Paramount, 713 Congress Ave,Austin,TX,United States

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