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 collaboration, intimacy, endurance and sustainability within extreme body-based performance practices.  Allison 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, taught and collaborated with artists from around the world, including Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Violeta Luna, Sara Shelton Mann, Guillermo Galindo, Tim Miller, Hydra Poesis, Marcos Najera, Micha Cárdenas, Prumsodun Ok, Hancock & Kelly Live, Maria Gillespie, Michael Sakamoto, Kinodance Company, and Katsura Kan, among others.  She has been an Associate Artist of the international performance company La Pocha Nostra since 2004.

Her work has been seen in Los Angeles (at LACE, Highways Performance Space, LACMA, Hammer Museum, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, REDCAT, and Craftswoman House), San Francisco (at the Performance Art Institute, Studio 24, 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 Emerson College) and internationally, in Calgary, Berlin and Perth, Western Australia.  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, promoting a vital and sustainable art community.  She curated and co-produced Theatre of Yugen's NOHspace Presents series from 2005-2008, showcasing emerging 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 holds an MFA from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and a BA in Theatre Studies with concentrations in Directing and Visual Art from Emerson College.