Jo Harvey Allen (born ) is an American writer, actress, and
artist.Allen was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, to a dress shop
manager mother and a carpenter father. In , she married artist and
singer Terry Allen and moved to Los Angeles, California where she
walked away from a BFA degree from the Woodbury College of Design over
a disputed sixty dollar fee. She studied with poets, Philip Levine and
Kenneth Rexroth and staged her first poetry performance for an
audience of one, mentor, dancer, filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer.In the s,
she was a pioneer of women in radio hosting Los Angeles' Rawhide &
Roses, music and talk show, on the early underground rock station,
KPPC-FM in Pasadena, California, produced by her husband,
artist/songwriter, Terry Allen. In the s, she was one of the first
performance artists performing throughout the U.S. in alternative
spaces, cafes, art galleries and museums.She is best known, however,
for her work in film and for her one-woman plays which she has toured
extensively including off-Broadway productions written and performed
by Allen of A Moment's Hesitation, (director Allen), As It Is in
Texas, (director Ellen Sabastian), and Counter Angel, (director Joan
Tewkesbury), (CD of audio available), (play was filmed by Alan
Landsbury). Counter Angel was first performed in truck stops and cafes
and based on Allen's book of photographs and interviews titled The
Beautiful Waitress (unpublished).
artist.Allen was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, to a dress shop
manager mother and a carpenter father. In , she married artist and
singer Terry Allen and moved to Los Angeles, California where she
walked away from a BFA degree from the Woodbury College of Design over
a disputed sixty dollar fee. She studied with poets, Philip Levine and
Kenneth Rexroth and staged her first poetry performance for an
audience of one, mentor, dancer, filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer.In the s,
she was a pioneer of women in radio hosting Los Angeles' Rawhide &
Roses, music and talk show, on the early underground rock station,
KPPC-FM in Pasadena, California, produced by her husband,
artist/songwriter, Terry Allen. In the s, she was one of the first
performance artists performing throughout the U.S. in alternative
spaces, cafes, art galleries and museums.She is best known, however,
for her work in film and for her one-woman plays which she has toured
extensively including off-Broadway productions written and performed
by Allen of A Moment's Hesitation, (director Allen), As It Is in
Texas, (director Ellen Sabastian), and Counter Angel, (director Joan
Tewkesbury), (CD of audio available), (play was filmed by Alan
Landsbury). Counter Angel was first performed in truck stops and cafes
and based on Allen's book of photographs and interviews titled The
Beautiful Waitress (unpublished).
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.