Simone Allen

Biography

Simone Allen is a music director, pianist, arranger, & songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She recently music-directed Sweeney Todd at The Hangar Theatre, featuring Nik Walker and Donna Lynne Champlin. Broadway: The Cher Show. Off-Broadway: Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3 Lincoln Center, Music Director), Octet (Signature Theatre/Berkeley Rep, AMD), Black No More (The New Group), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre, AMD), Cruel Intentions (keyboard sub), As You Like It (Public Works). Additional & developmental: Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse), The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company, AMD sub), The Karate Kid (lab), Suffs (Public Theater, readings), Against Women & Music! (The Civilians reading, vocal MD), Liner Notes On Love & Music (MD), One Way (NAMT, MD), A Beautiful Noise (reading), Letters to the President (Cooper Union, songwriter), Black Orpheus, The Cherry Orchard (Lake Lucille Chekhov Project), Moulin Rouge (lab, rehearsal piano). BA Music Tufts University.