Allison McDonell Page, Artistic, Executive & Managing Director

Allison has been leading Sierra Classic Theatre since 2010. First as Director of the Board, then 8 years ago as Artistic and Executive Director. Allison has directed and/or acted in numerous Eastern Sierra productions, including: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Proof by David Auburn, August:Osage County by Tracy Letts, Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin, Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike by Christopher Durang, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, The Minutes by Tracy Letts, The Effect by Lucy Prebble, The Lifespan of a Fact by Kereken, Murrell & Ferrell, Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, and Romeo and Juliet.. She has directed too many staged readings to name and as an actor performed leading roles in Hamlet (Gertrude) Outside Mullingar (Rose), The Taming of the Shrew (Shrew), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Elaine), The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor), August:Osage County (Karen), Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike (Masha), Summer & Smoke (Alma), Good People (Margie), The Minutes (Ms. Matz) to name a few. Allison received her ‘BA from Harvard College. She studied acting with William Esper in NYC as well as numerous others and had a recurring role on Another World, performed in numerous independent films and made several TV appearances. However, her greatest love was always the theater. Years ago she performed regionally and Off-Broadway in such plays as To Kill A Mockingbird (Syracuse Stage), Hadley’s Mistake (Soho Rep, directed by Bartlett Sher), and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Bristol Valley). She worked with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lanford Wilson, in the World Premiere of A Sense Of Place (American Stage) and played the lead in the premiere of Spring Storm, a lost play by Tennessee Williams at The Marin Theatre Company.

Leanna Merrill, Bookkeeper