Alison

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Location Oakland, CA
Introduction I'm a poet, playwright, teacher, and improviser, with an abiding passion for the rights of children.
Interests poetry, theatre, improvisation, diversity, children's rights, Haiti, jazz, photography, painting, languages...
Favorite Movies Nashville by Robert Altman, All About My Mother by Pedro Almodovar, 49 Ronin, Red Beard (Japanese movies), Motorcycle Diaries, Jules et Jim
Favorite Music "My Favorite Things" Coltrane, Mozart, Gregorian chanting, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Voicestra, SoVoSo, Street Sounds, Slammin, a capella anything
Favorite Books "The Ten Thousand Things, " Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, Bel Canto, Elizabeth Bishop's Collected Poems, Angels in America, Getting Mother's Body, etc. etc.