Allison Grischow is an actor, musician, improviser, and teaching artist. She holds degrees in Theatre and Music from Valparaiso University and is a graduate of Second City’s Music Improv Conservatory. She has studied Contemporary British Theatre in the heart of London; a variety of aerial apparatuses at The Actor’s Gymnasium; and the Stanislavsky tradition, movement training, and Russian history at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She teaches all over the city with Chicago Children’s Theatre, Playmakers Laboratory, Lifeline Theatre, and more. Allison loves to explore the overlap between music and theatrical art forms, and she believes in the power of theatre to cultivate confidence, empathy, and joy. She also has a pet bird named Buckbeak, who she loves very much. (Bio as of 2020)
Allison Grischow
