Diane Worfolk Allison

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Please click on the topics to the left to look at samples, and explore her latest projects. She's always eager to do more teaching, writing, illustration work, performing, so feel free to contact her anytime.</div> <bR> <div> Diane Allison’s childhood was immersed in music, dance, art, spirituality, books, and the love of nature.  She listened spell-bound to friends’ stories of healing, her grandmother’s stories of life in the theater and as a newspaperman’s wife in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, her mother’s stories of life during the depression.  Diane’s aunt, a curator, lectured her through tours of art museums in New York and Philadelphia.  She was showered with books and given classes in ballet, art, spirituality and music.  The demand of her religious training was to bring healing to the world.  Growing up under the nuclear threat, she thought hard about what could help, and decided early that the only answer was education.  It had to start with children. </div> <div> So it isn’t surprising that the result is a career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, a storyteller, a playwright, a performer, all bound up in a passion for children, a passion to teach.</div> <div> Diane went off to Minnesota to attend college at Macalester.  She stumbled through the academics, but thrived on the art and dance classes and her work in the theater and yearbook.  She met and married her husband, Monroe, there, and in the turmoil of the Viet Nam era, they soon found themselves parents of a little girl in the inner city of Chicago living under a pastor’s roof, committed to civil rights and social programs.  She became a Montessori teacher in her father-in-law’s school so her work would keep her close to her daughter Jessica and son Paul.   She also wrote scripts and songs for a children’s TV show, did children’s portraits, drew storyboards for Sears’ ads, wrote and directed musical plays for the public schools and performed original work for a local senior center.She wrote and illustrated children's books which, after a move to Boston, led to her first published picture books with Little Brown.</div> <div> Other books followed, and another move -- to Brooklyn.  There, she taught in a children’s musical theater program and honed her skills as an author-illustrator-storyteller, touring the country, visiting schools, giving various programs and workshops. She continues to take classes from talented New York  professionals in art, writing and theater.  She’s continually developing a one-woman, one-puppet, one-act play, ‘Miriam’, a half-hour musical performance piece, her insights into the life of Moses’ sister.  Presently Diane is the creative director for the Christian Science Reading Room in Tribeca, still performing, writing essays for magazines, illustrating books and giving workshops.   A special sidenote is working with her husband Monroe Allison in the Trick or Treat for UNICEF program,visiting schools with her UNICEF fairy puppet and a song especially written and recorded for Trick or Treaters. </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>