Allison Wyper makes live performance that destabilizes the familiar from a feminist, activist perspective to reveal uncomfortable truths about our everyday lives.  Bridging contemporary practices including performance art, theatre, dance and conceptual art she generates a dynamic hybrid genre that vitalizes the performance space as a site of critical investigation, with focus on participatory, one-on-one performance, as well as endurance and sustainability within extreme body-based performance practices.  Wyper situates herself in a transnational community that nurtures the artist and art praxis as fundamental to a critically self-aware and just society. 

Allison has performed and collaborated with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Violeta Luna, Sara Shelton-Mann, Marcos Najera, Hancock & Kelly, Maria Gillespie, Michael Sakamoto, Alissa Cardone and Alla Kovgan (Kinodance Company), Katsura Kan, Guillermo Galindo (AKA gal*in_dog), Scrap & Salvage, Culture Clash, paige starling sorvillo/blindsight, and Pilgrim Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative. 

Her work has been seen in Los Angeles (at LACE, Highways Performance Space, LACMA, Hammer Museum, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, and Craftswoman House), San Francisco (at the Performance Art Institute, Dance Mission, Yerba Buena Gardens, NOHspace, The Garage, and CounterPULSE), Boston (at Boston Center for the Arts, the ICA, in the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and at Emerson College) and Berlin (at Schwelle7).  She founded and directed San Francisco-based Black Stone Ensemble from 2005-2008. 

Allison has worked as a freelance arts administrator and producer since 2004, working to ensure and promote a vital and sustainable not-for-profit art community.  She curated and co-produced Theatre of Yugen's NOHspace Presents series from 2005-2008, showcasing new and established performing artists creating new experimental and Asian-based work.  She has also been a guest curator of the Anatomy Riot series in Los Angeles.

Allison graduated summa cum laude from Emerson College in 2003, receiving a BA in Theatre Studies with concentrations in Directing and Visual Art. In 2011 she earned an MFA from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures|Dance.