A B O U T
GURLS, by Branden Jacobs Jenkins, dir. Liliana Blain-Cruz, 2018, photo by Larry Levanti
GENERATIVE PERFORMING ARTIST
Allison Spann is a Brooklyn-based performance creator who believes in the power of voice and collaborative art-making as radical tools for healing. She is a multi-genre vocalist, actor, composer, music director, sound designer, and director. Winner of the Princeton Concerto Competition, recipient of the Richardson Auditorium Artist in Residency, semifinalist at the O’Neill’s National Music Theater Conference, and winner of the Edward T. Cone Prize for music composition, performance, and scholarship, Spann has reached audiences from The Kennedy Center, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, and jazz clubs around the globe. She has worked as a soloist with Gustavo Dudamel, Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Archie Shepp, Billy Childs, Roomful of Teeth, and Darcy James Argue, among others. Spann shares her passion for education in her private music studio, where she teaches beginners and professionals alike. Her workshop series, Earth Song, teaches group voicework to inspire collective advocacy and activism surrounding the climate crisis. Spann holds a BA in music from Princeton University (magna cum laude).