Simone Allen

2025 part two you filled my cup all right! Tina and pitch pipes and IEMs, electricians and neurochemists, mistaken identical twins, Sardinian donkeys and whale songs, cutting rooms, trailheads, democratic socialists, hambletonians, labyrinths and fish leather, dog dreams wish you could tag more than 20

🎂, arizona and massachusetts, friends of saul, arbuckles and soviet pen pals, canyons, soundbites, nuptials, saloons, omnichords, fireflies © 2025

Dream gig. Had the time of my life with this immaculate band playing Stereophonic songs with the great great @sarah__pidgeon and @julianakdc . @magda.kress @alex.petti @noahhadland you rock so hard. We love Playwrights Horizons. Thank you to @butlerwills for trusting us to play your gorgeous songs and for your great advice, and thank you to my pal @sin_tash for bringing me on in the first place. friends @willbrill @andrewrbutler I feel quite lucky for the chance to spend a little time in the world of your awesome play And what a sweet day-of surprise to learn that my dear @sivanbattat was directing the gala!! And my Severance nerd self very thrilled to be in the same lineup as Jen Tullock @surefineokay and @nikkimjames 📷: our lovely tablemate @juefrancis_ @playwrightshorizons @stereophonicplay

Beside myself, daunted, deeply excited to be music-directing Dave’s perfect Octet at Hudson Valley Shakespeare this summer. It’s the first new production since the original and it is accessible from New York City! @hvshakespeare I can’t even begin to count the ways working on Octet has shaped my life over the past 6 and a half years. It’s the first time that I felt like I had a place as a music director in the NYC theater scene, and the first time I received validation in that respect from people I admire in the industry. In many ways, I have grown up with this show; I started transcribing the songs when I was 23, and this year I turn 30. We had three music rehearsal days this April before we get into July rehearsals— I am already sooooo in love with this cast. They are so up to the challenge of this music and so encouraging of one another. You must come see them August 11-September 7!! @davemalloy @ormatias @amaginnis when I reached out to let you know I’d be doing this, it meant the world to have your support. Gonna try our best to do you all proud. big shoes to fill! This is all thanks to Amanda Dehnert and @sheelaramesh . so incredibly grateful to the both of you.

Played piano and taught actors which notes to sing! felt fulfilled and hopeful, and felt not good enough, and had a few existential crises and high highs. lived inside a bunch of stories. traveled across the world some more. hugged my people and dogs. 30 is next that’s weird!

I wanna spend my time with you!!! (of 2024) 🦋

Istanbul was a DREAM and I think I pet about 207 cats!! thank you @pudding_weasel for all your good tips :)

Still riding high from music-directing Kill The Whale by @danielemondmusic at Joe’s Pub this weekend. One of those sweet moments where I feel like I was exactly where I was supposed to be & doing what I should be doing, bringing my full self and skills to something. Daniel’s music is so extraordinary and specific, based in GROOVE and tasty weird chords and soulful inevitable melodies and eclectic influences. I want to see more theater with music that sounds like this. Such a huge privilege to lead this all-star cast and band. more soon I hope!!!!! 🐋 [many lovely friends came- thank you again so much for being there 💛]

cozy Brooklyn Saturday with the people I like most 🍴 source of very good vibes since the 90s!!!!

2023 was such a tough one, honestly. but here’s some of the sweeter times. [ran out of tags, ily @julianhornik et al. 54 Below band pic: @rebeccajmichelson , Cornelia St opening: @arfosterphoto 📸]

If you’ll indulge me, a few moments when I was out-of-my-mind happy in Europe this fall @goodheart9na & @yaybriel4 took a bunch of these 🤍 wild and wonderful to have the chance to go to Europe for work!! Athens, Santorini, Rhodes, Mykonos (Greece) / Bodrum (Türkiye) / Lisbon (Portugal) / Dublin, County Wicklow, Howth (Ireland) / Vienna (Austria)

Morning in Οία 🇬🇷 (this is all your doing @matthewdeanmarsh 😘)