Trevor Allen

Trevor Allen

Trevor is an award winning Bay Area playwright. Productions include: Lolita Roadtrip (San Jose Stage Company).The Creature (Black Box Theatre Company, Bay Area Critic's Circle award) Tenders in the Fog (San Jose Stage Company, Dean Goodman Award, Original Script), Working for the Mouse! (Impact Theatre), 49 Miles (Crowded Fire Theater), Chain Reactions, (Theatre of Yugen, CAFÉ and The Cutting Ball). He...
Trevor is an award winning Bay Area playwright. Productions include: Lolita Roadtrip (San Jose Stage Company).The Creature (Black Box Theatre Company, Bay Area Critic's Circle award) Tenders in the Fog (San Jose Stage Company, Dean Goodman Award, Original Script), Working for the Mouse! (Impact Theatre), 49 Miles (Crowded Fire Theater), Chain Reactions, (Theatre of Yugen, CAFÉ and The Cutting Ball). He received a San Francisco Arts Commission grant for his play, Zoo Logic. He is a Bay Area Playwrights Festival alumni and his play, One Stone (Einstein), a collaboration with Lunatique Fantastique was developed through their “Incubator” and “In the Rough” programs. Two of his plays have received the SF Fringe Festival’s “Best Of” awards. His short play, Mamlet, won American Conservatory Theatre’s “Mamet” contest. He received PlayGround's Emerging Playwright Award, Playwriting Fellowship and two Alumni full length play commissions for Lolita Roadtrip and Golden Gate Fair. He was a Playwright in Residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He is currently working on scripts for Valley of Sand, a new play about Silicon Valley originally commissioned by San Jose Repertory Theatre and PlayGround, A Treasured Island, his adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel set in a Children’s hospital and other projects. A book length collection of five of his professionally produced plays was recently published by EXIT Press. He holds a BA in Theatre from UCLA and a MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU. He is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America.

Plays

  • The Creature
    No green skin, no neckbolts--this is an elegant, presentational adaptation based on the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Told from the Creature’s point of view and juxtaposing the stark first years of his existence with the scientist’s denial of his creation, THE CREATURE breathes new life into this timeless supernatural tale in a fugue-like cacophony of horror, revenge, and redemption.
  • Working for the Mouse
    Ever wonder what really goes on at the Happiest Place on Earth? This solo show chronicling the life of a costumed character answers this and other burning questions like, "Is it hot in there?", "Where do you see out of?" and "What kind of underwear does Mickey wear under there?" Playwright and performer Trevor Allen spent a few years in Southern California playing Pluto, The White...
    Ever wonder what really goes on at the Happiest Place on Earth? This solo show chronicling the life of a costumed character answers this and other burning questions like, "Is it hot in there?", "Where do you see out of?" and "What kind of underwear does Mickey wear under there?" Playwright and performer Trevor Allen spent a few years in Southern California playing Pluto, The White Rabbit, Mister Smee, the Mad Hatter and other characters on his quest for voice clearance and his dream of becoming Peter Pan. He recounts his tales of backstage debauchery, militant managers and his quirky coworkers in this unique coming of age tale that blows pixie dust in your eyes while offering a glimpse behind the ears of the Magic Kingdom. This play was voted Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival and went on to play to sold-out houses and critical acclaim in Northern California, Berkeley and San Francisco.
  • Lolita Roadtrip
    This darkly comic play follows Julia (a rebellious Stanford graduate student researching her thesis) and Danny (a hitchhiking teenaged runaway she picks up) as together they retrace novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov's actual 1941 roadtrip from New York to Stanford. A series of cross country adventures ensues, as they confront their own dark pasts and discover what really causes a chrysalis to transform into a butterfly.
  • Tenders in the Fog
    A Shanachie, or traditional Irish storyteller, tells the tale of the Bailey Banshee and the ghost ship, Trinity. As the audience meets the crew of the doomed ship (three generations of fishermen) the Shanachie becomes a shape-shifting Banshee, taking on different guises in a siren-like attempt to lure the men into the sea. The story is a haunting and fugue-like exploration of the lives of three men and their...
    A Shanachie, or traditional Irish storyteller, tells the tale of the Bailey Banshee and the ghost ship, Trinity. As the audience meets the crew of the doomed ship (three generations of fishermen) the Shanachie becomes a shape-shifting Banshee, taking on different guises in a siren-like attempt to lure the men into the sea. The story is a haunting and fugue-like exploration of the lives of three men and their relationships to each other and the sea as well as a possible explanation of their sudden disappearance.
  • Chain Reactions
    Three interwoven fugue-like stories are held together by a young physicist who is a mother-to-be. The piece is an experiment with theatrical form and structure, which is influenced by musical composition as well as quantum theory. It combines Einstein, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the view through a goldfish bowl in an exploration of the nature of reality, morality and the consequences of our actions....
    Three interwoven fugue-like stories are held together by a young physicist who is a mother-to-be. The piece is an experiment with theatrical form and structure, which is influenced by musical composition as well as quantum theory. It combines Einstein, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the view through a goldfish bowl in an exploration of the nature of reality, morality and the consequences of our actions. This thought-provoking piece won Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, where it was staged inside the Morrison Planetarium in Golden Gate Park.
  • One Stone (ein-stein)
    Through the magic of puppetry, solo performance, violin music and projections, One Stone explores the scientific discoveries, the complex character and the humanitarian ideals that were at the core of Albert Einstein’s work and life. Playwright Trevor Allen shines a brilliant, multi-media light on the man behind the great mind, making his incredible ideas accessible to non-physicists, while igniting his sense...
    Through the magic of puppetry, solo performance, violin music and projections, One Stone explores the scientific discoveries, the complex character and the humanitarian ideals that were at the core of Albert Einstein’s work and life. Playwright Trevor Allen shines a brilliant, multi-media light on the man behind the great mind, making his incredible ideas accessible to non-physicists, while igniting his sense of childlike wonder in us all.