Jo Harvey Allen
Biography
An American actress, writer, and artist born in Lubbock in 1945, Jo Harvey Allen hosted the Rawhide & Roses music and talk program on KPPC-FM in Pasadena, California, in the 1960s. During the 1970s she toured the U.S. as an early performance artist, appearing in alternative spaces, cafes, galleries, and museums. She became known for solo plays that she wrote and performed, including A Moment's Hesitation, As It Is in Texas, and Counter Angel, which was first staged in truck stops and cafes. Her film credits include True Stories (1986), The Client, Secondhand Lions, The Wendell Baker Story (2005), and In the Valley of Elah. Allen also wrote Hally Lou and Homerun, co-wrote and starred in the opera Pioneer, published the poetry collection Cheek to Cheek, and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an ART MATTERS grant.
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 28 years1986 to 2014
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A first
In the 1970s, Allen was among the earliest performance artists, giving shows across the U.S. in cafes, alternative spaces, art galleries and museums.
Getting ready for a role
Jo Harvey Allen's one-woman play Counter Angel drew on her book of photographs and interviews, The Beautiful Waitress, and it was first staged in truck stops and cafes.
Beyond film
Jo Harvey Allen played Chippy in Diaries of a West Texas Hooker, which she wrote with Terry Allen. The music was written by the Allens, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and Jo Carol Pierce, and it was staged at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia and Lincoln Center in New York.
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Worked with
Jo Harvey Allen shares two films with David Byrne, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Jon AvnetDirector, 1 film, 1991
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