Kimball Allen (born February 22, 1982) is an American writer,
journalist, playwright, and actor. He is the author of two
autobiographical one-man plays: Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon (2012)
and Be Happy Be Mormon (2014). The latter premiered at Theatre Row in
Manhattan on September 24 and 27, 2014, as part of the United Solo
Theatre Festival. From 2015â€"2017 he hosted the recurring Triple
Threat w/ Kimball Allen, a 90-minute variety talk show at The Triple
Door in Seattle.Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon is an autobiographical
one-man play written and performed by Allen. In it, he reenacts the
circumstances of his life that led him from a Mormon childhood through
a life of addiction and, eventually, arrest.Allen was born and grew up
in Blackfoot, Idaho, a religious, conservative region, and he was one
of eight children in an orthodox Mormon family. Even when he was
small, his strict Mormon parents were concerned by what they perceived
as unusual behavior and mannerisms on his part, and his mother
preemptively warned him, "Boys don't kiss boys."At the age of 13, he
was raped by an older man who befriended him at a mall. To cope with
this trauma, which he could not tell anyone about, he surreptitiously
turned to alcohol, and eventually drugs. He began living a double life
â€" a devout Mormon on the surface, and underneath a teen struggling
with his sexual orientation, the rape trauma, and his growing
addictions.
journalist, playwright, and actor. He is the author of two
autobiographical one-man plays: Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon (2012)
and Be Happy Be Mormon (2014). The latter premiered at Theatre Row in
Manhattan on September 24 and 27, 2014, as part of the United Solo
Theatre Festival. From 2015â€"2017 he hosted the recurring Triple
Threat w/ Kimball Allen, a 90-minute variety talk show at The Triple
Door in Seattle.Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon is an autobiographical
one-man play written and performed by Allen. In it, he reenacts the
circumstances of his life that led him from a Mormon childhood through
a life of addiction and, eventually, arrest.Allen was born and grew up
in Blackfoot, Idaho, a religious, conservative region, and he was one
of eight children in an orthodox Mormon family. Even when he was
small, his strict Mormon parents were concerned by what they perceived
as unusual behavior and mannerisms on his part, and his mother
preemptively warned him, "Boys don't kiss boys."At the age of 13, he
was raped by an older man who befriended him at a mall. To cope with
this trauma, which he could not tell anyone about, he surreptitiously
turned to alcohol, and eventually drugs. He began living a double life
â€" a devout Mormon on the surface, and underneath a teen struggling
with his sexual orientation, the rape trauma, and his growing
addictions.
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