The Grim Reaper and Howard Allen

About the Book

This book consist of three one act plays, two comedies and one drama. The fi rst play “The Grim Reaper and Howard Allen” is a comedy monologue (solo performance) about the grim reaper trying to get a crusty old man to go with him to the other side. The second play “Twenty Years” (a drama) is about a middle age man in life whose dream has been deferred and has a wife that just does not understand him lately causing tension between them. The third play “What Do You Mean” is theatre of the ridiculous comedy between a motor cycle cop and a motorist that the cop is giving a ticket to for not wearing their seat belt. Howard Allen is a graduate of the dramatic workshop and an alumnus of Herbert Berghof School of Drama both of which are located in New York City. He also took an acting class for one semester with Stella Adler and Lee Strassberg. Is a member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) American Federation of Television and Radio Artist (AFTRA) and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). In Mr. Allen’s earlier years, he spent several seasons with the Louisville Theatre Guild in Kentucky and the Clarksville Little Theatre in Indiana. Mr. Allen resides in New York City.

About the Author

Howard Allen is a graduate of the Dramatic Workshop and an alumnus of the Herbert Berghof School of drama both of which are located in New York City. Mr. Allen also took acting classes with Stella Adler, Gene Frankel, and Lee Strasberg back in the nineteen sixties, as well as Ivor Francis and Madeline Sherwood. Mr. Allen Is a member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) American Federation Of Television And Radio Artist (AFTRA)and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). In Mr. Allen’s earlier years he spent several seasons with the Louisville Theatre Guild in Kentucky and the Clarksville Little Theatre in Clarksville, Indiana. Founder of The Troupe Repertory Company in New York City, Mr. Allen left the Troupe after four years of being the director and was the founder of another repertory company, The New York City League Of Playwrights. Mr. Allen resides in New York City and now spends most of his time writing plays and novels, songs and poems while smoking his cigars and drinking his wine, reminiscing about space and time and dreaming of all that was sublime.