Founder of Neo-Futurism
Directing
Pinocchio/Frankenstein
Carlo Collodi’s original 1883 Italian masterpiece is seen through the eyes of Mary Shelley’s nameless hideous Monster, using a barrage of puppets, absurd costumes, mesmerizing stagecraft, and Greg’s trademark humor and meta-theatrics.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
The longest running show in Chicago and the only open-run Off-Off-Broadway show in New York, the show has run 50 weekends of the year since 1988.
K. (an original adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial)
Highlighting the dark humor in Kafka’s parable, Greg employs masks, music, puppetry, and his trademark meta-theatrics to tell this surprisingly contemporary tale.
Strange Interlude
An outrageous new interpretation of all nine acts, six hours, and 350 pages of this mammoth, seldom-produced play brought the Goodman Theatre’s 21st Century Exploration of Eugene O’Neill to a triumphant close.
About Greg
Founding director of the Neo-Futurists, Greg Allen has taught writing, theater, and performance at the University of Chicago, the Actors Theater of Louisville, and Depaul University. More »
