Tali Allen

Tali Allen is absolutely thrilled to join The Muny family and continue her work in musical theatre education in St. Louis. She has worked in the arts for almost 20 years and has taught musical theatre and voice on all academic levels. She has also directed, music directed and accompanied an innumerable amount of award-winning professional and youth productions in theatres across the country. Tali was a teaching artist with Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Nashville, TN) and Metropolis Performing Arts Center (Chicago, IL), where she also served as the Director of the Music School.
After relocating to St. Louis in 2009, Tali founded her own performing arts studio which offered private lessons and youth musical theatre programs in various school districts and parks and recreation departments throughout the city. She taught music and drama within the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was a member of the Theatre and Voice Faculty at COCA and music directed for several youth and community theatre groups. She also conducted a series of musical theatre professional development workshops for educators in the Archdiocese.
In 2016, she completed the Music Directing Intensive at the legendary Goodspeed Opera House.
Tali was formerly the Director of Education and Outreach at Stages St. Louis, as well as the Director/Music Director of their pre-professional groups, Triple Threats and Triple Threat TEENS. The Performing Arts Academy saw many successes under her leadership through her restructuring of programming and partnerships formed with Lincoln Center Education, the Educational Theatre Association and iTheatrics. She most recently served as an Adjudicator/Workshop Leader at the Junior Theatre Festival and directed a pilot production of The Drowsy Chaperone Jr. for MTI and iTheatrics. Tali is currently an adjunct voice faculty member at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.