JUDITH ALLEN served for over two decades as the Associate Artistic Director for OpenStage Theatre and is an award winning director, actress and designer. She most recently appeared with OpenStage as Princess Dragomiroff in Murder on the Orient Express, Clairee in Steel Magnolias and is a recent recipient of the BroadwayWorld (Denver Region) nod for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mattie Fae Aiken in August Osage County. Judi was the first recipient of the Shela Jennings Award for Theatre Excellence (OpenStage, 2017) and has directed OpenStage productions of Noises Off (OpenStage OPUS Award/Best Play and Best Director and Denver Post Ovation nominee/Best Comedy), The Drawer Boy (OPUS/Best Play and Best Director), and Romeo and Juliet (OPUS/Best Director. Other favorite roles with OpenStage have been Chris in Neil Simon’s Rumors (OPUS nominee and Denver Post Ovation Award/Best Supporting Actress) and the Nurse in the 2014 production of Romeo and Juliet (OPUS/Best Actress). Judi is also an award-winning makeup artist and the 2001 recipient of the OpenStage Founders’ Award for outstanding contributions to the Company.
Judith's Work in OpenStage Theatre
| Event | Role |
|---|---|
| Clue: On Stage | Director |
| Sense And Sensibility | Production Manager |
| Cyrano De Bergerac | Director |
| Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express | Princess Dragomiroff |
| Rumors | Director |
| Frankenstein | Specialty FX MakeUp Designer |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Director |
| Steel Magnolias | Clairee Belcher |
| The Comedy Of Errors | Box Office Manager |
| And Then There Were None | Stage Manager/Light Board Operator |
| La Bete- Essential Season | MakeUp Designer |
| August: Osage County- Essential Season | Mattie Fay Aiken |
| Outside Mullingar | Production Manager |
| Journey To The West | Make-Up Designer/Make-Up Stylist |
| Unnecessary Farce | Director |
| Romeo And Juliet | Nurse |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Make-Up Designer |
| The Tempest | Prospero |
| Wit | Production Manager/Make-Up and Hair Designer |
| Noises Off | Director |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania/Hyppolyta |
| A Child's Christmas In Wales | Stage Manager |
| The Ladies Man | Director |
| Othello | Make-Up Designer |
| 33 Variations | Make-Up Designer |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure | Properties Crew |
| King Lear | Make-Up Designer/Make-Up Stylist |
| A Picasso | Make-Up Designer |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure | Director |
| Casino Royale | M |
| The Glass Menagerie | Production Manager/Make-Up Designer |
| Sceneworks | Actor |
| Anon(ymous) | Make-Up Designer/Make-Up Stylist |
| Doubt | Production Manager |
| As You Like It | Director |
| Third | *Laurie Jameson |
| The Harvey Project | Producing Artistic Director |
| Noises Off | Director |
| The Harvey Project | Mother of God / Ge |
| Saint Joan | Make-Up Designer |
| True West | Artistic Consultant |
| Picnic | Director |
| Splitting Infinity | *Leigh Sangold |
| The Shape Of Things | Set-In Crew |
| Desperate Affection | Producing Advisor |
| The Six That Fell | Artistic Mentor |
| The Solid Gold Cadillac | Make-Up Designer |
| The Shape Of Things | Artistic Advisor |
| Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead And 15 Minute Hamlet | Director |
| Mythologica | Writing Team |
| The Weir | Set-In Crew |
| The Drawer Boy | Sound Designer |
| The Weir | Properties Design |
| The Weir | Producer |
| Major Arcana | Director; Nobody Outcrazies Ophelia and Firetalker |
| The Drawer Boy | Director |
| The Weir | Set Dressing |
| Major Arcana | Creation Committee; Narrator |
| Major Arcana | Series Narrator |
| Major Arcana | New Splendid Lady; Reporter; Interviewer; Bonnie |
| Macbeth | Make-up Design |
| Moon Over Buffalo | Producer |
| Raised In Captivity | Producer |
| Macbeth | Producer |
| Flaming Guns Of The Purple Sage | Big 8 |
| Portals | Shade |
| Cakewalk | Lillian Hellman |
| Romeo And Juliet | Sound Designer |
| Tartuffe | Make-Up Design |
| Romeo And Juliet | Director |
| Who Will Carry The Word | Renee |
| Fuddy Meers | Make-up design |
| Henry Iv, Part 1 | Sound Design |
| Wit | Producer |
| Crimes Of The Heart | Make-Up Design |
| Henry Iv, Part 1 | Director |
| An Act Of Love | Actor |
| Rumors | Chris Gorman |
| The House Of Bernarda Alba | Stage Manager |
| The House Of Bernarda Alba | Sound Design |
| Picasso At The Lapin Agile | Make-Up Design |
| The House Of Bernarda Alba | Producer |
| Cry Havoc | Smitty |
| The Man Who Came To Dinner | Director |
| The Comedy Of Errors | Angelo |
| The Living | Producer |
| The 1940s Radio Hour | Producer |
| The Living | Sound design |
| The Living | Director |
| The Ladies Of The Camellias | Eleonora Duse |