Alle Mims

Alle Mims

Alle Mims is currently an MFA candidate in Columbia's playwrighting program (class of 2020). She is originally from San Diego but earned her BA in acting/directing at Texas Women’s University in 2016. Since graduation, she worked professionally as an actor on stage and screen, with a special love for Shakespeare. In 2018, they served as an editor for the Dallas-Ft. Worth Theatre Standards, modeled after...
Alle Mims is currently an MFA candidate in Columbia's playwrighting program (class of 2020). She is originally from San Diego but earned her BA in acting/directing at Texas Women’s University in 2016. Since graduation, she worked professionally as an actor on stage and screen, with a special love for Shakespeare. In 2018, they served as an editor for the Dallas-Ft. Worth Theatre Standards, modeled after the Chicago Theatre Standards. In 2019, they co-produced the first ever Womxn in Theatre Festival in Dallas (Brickroad Theatre). They also co-founded Altered Shakespeare, a company dedicated to giving opportunities to BIPOC, queer, and untapped talent, as well as bringing classic works to new audiences.

Alle Mims’ short play, Sally and Thomas; which shows a satirical conversation between Sally Hemmings and her slave-master, Thomas Jefferson; was produced locally in Dallas three times in 2018/2019 (Pocket Sandwich Theatre, Sundown Collaborative Theatre, The Guinea Pig IV). She also collaborated with 5 other local Dallas playwrights to create The Tree – An American Rock Musical, with music by Veteran Children for Imprint Theatreworks’ digital 2020/2021 season.

Plays

  • Happy Birthday to Me by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: happy endings for queer kids, happy endings for queers + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller, young audiences
    Keyword: happy endings for queer kids, happy endings for queers, queer, features LGBTQ character, LGBTQ, sleepover, teens, fourteen
    It's Chelsea's 14th birthday at midnight tonight, but until then, her older sister, Andrea is in charge. The two try to pass time while waiting for the rest of the sleepover guests to arrive. But when it's nearing midnight and no one has showed, Andrea suspects something else is going on.
  • The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People Hosted by Angela Davis with Special Guest J. Edgar Hoover by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 2
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    4–5
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    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte + 6 more
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    Keyword: American civil rights activist, Black civil rights + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte, dark comedy, farce, movement/physical, parody/spoof, political, satire
    Keyword: American civil rights activist, Black civil rights, Black Panthers, black actors, puppet, Nixon, FBI, Cointelpro
    It's December 5th, 1969, and your favorite civil rights activist is back with another episode of The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People. Today, we have special guest J. Edgar Hoover to talk about FBI sanctioned raids, COINTELPRO, and the use of state violence to suppress the movement. I've also heard the director might bring along a special friend who may or may not have just won the...
    It's December 5th, 1969, and your favorite civil rights activist is back with another episode of The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People. Today, we have special guest J. Edgar Hoover to talk about FBI sanctioned raids, COINTELPRO, and the use of state violence to suppress the movement. I've also heard the director might bring along a special friend who may or may not have just won the presidential election running on a platform Law and Order.

    In this Mr. Roger's Neighborhood parody, we will get a brief glimpse into the politics of late 60's as told by Angela Davis with small brain teasers, a puppet show and good old fashion slapstick comedy.
  • Sally and Thomas by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Race, slavery + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, parody/spoof, period, political, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: Race, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, sally hemmings, gender, challenge to power
    Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson are enjoying an evening in Monticello when Thomas offers Sally “anything your heart desires.” But he hesitates when Sally asks for the only thing she truly wants: her freedom. He’s the most powerful man in the country. She’s barely 3/5ths of a person. Will Sally become a free woman? Does Thomas really love her as much as he says? Can a person who is property consent?