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Education. Allen was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, to a dress shop manager mother and a carpenter father. In 1961, 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 ...
Jo Harvey Allen. Actress: The Homesman. Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher).
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Jo Harvey Allen. Actress: The Homesman. Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher). She is most recently featured in The Homesman (Cannes 2014, dir. Tommy ...
Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for her numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called “A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition” by the LA Weekly, “Funny, Amazing, Profound…a knockout performer and writer who vanishes into her luminous material!” by LA Reader and “has elicited comparisons with Flannery ...
A review of Jo Harvey's works for stage and film coupled with the actress and writer's comments on her early experiences and how her work has evolved. Topics...
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The Authors Road spent an enjoyable afternoon in Santa Fe, New Mexico interviewing Jo Harvey Allen. She told us her remarkable story of how she wrote and pro...
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(With Terry Allen) Pioneer(opera), Theatre Artaud, 1991 (With Terry Allen and others) Chippy: Diaries of a West Texas Hooker, American Music Theatre Festival, then John Jay Theatre, 1994 Author of As It Is in Texas and Counter Angel (solo shows) and Hally Lou.
