Renée Bang Allen

Renée Bang Allen is an actress, singer, musician and playwright. After graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, she made her theatrical debut in the cast of the first international tour of Grand Hotel - The Musical, directed by 9-time Tony Award® winner, Tommy Tune. She made her Broadway debut as "Joanne" and "Sarah" in the John Doyle directed revival of Stephen Sondheim's, Company (2007 Tony Award® Winner - Best Revival). Off Broadway productions include: Secrets of A Soccer Mom, directed by 2- time Tony Award® winner Judith Ivey, Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Bryna Wasserman and several one-act productions at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, including Horton Foote's The Midnight Caller and Getting Frankie Married. Regionally she appeared in a highly acclaimed production of Spring Awakening at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ and several productions at The Weston Playhouse in Weston, VT. In film Renée was featured as "Bootsey" in the indie hit, Sex Farce, (Evan Greenberg, dir.) and also starred as "Bernadette" in Bernadette, etc. (David Perlman, dir.) On television she enjoyed a co-starring role in Blue Bloods (CBS) and recently returned from shooting a leading role in the new web series, Small Miracles, starring Judd Hirsch. Her musical, "54" - the musical, (which is based on infamous events and characters from the notorious discotheque, Studio 54) is in development for Broadway. She is creator, founder and director of the collective... an industry workshop for performing artists in New York City and is part of the A.S.T.E.P. community of volunteer-artists in the New York area. She studied acting with Fred Kareman, singing with Joanna Gleason and playwriting with Curt Dempster, director and founder of the Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC.