Allison Nissley

Allison Nissley (Theatre School Director) has worked as a teaching artist, performer, director, and stage carpenter. She got her start working as a teaching artist here at The Coterie, as an education intern and as a freelance teaching artist. A Kansas City native, after earning her undergraduate degree in theatre from Northwest Missouri State, she began working in Kansas City, as a theatre artist. She has worked professionally in theatre for young audiences, touring and performing educational theatre with the National Theatre for Children, based in Minneapolis, before settling back in Kansas City.