Allen is a Maine filmmaker who has been making shorts and features in his home state for over twenty years. He is the co-founder of Damnationland, a showcase of short dark genre films made by Maine filmmakers, now in its twelfth year. He produced Derek Kimball’s feature film debut Neptune which screened at Slamdance and is now available on all streaming services. Currently, he is producing Kimball’s latest feature, A Winter Table, which was selected for the Sundance Film Two Lab. Allen has a BA from Bowdoin College, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine, and was a Fellow at the Sundance Creative Producing Summit. His musical about infertility, Misconceptions, premiered on stage in Falmouth, Maine in November, 2018. And his latest project, a pilot for a series set in rural Maine called Ranger, was a finalist in the TSL Free Screenplay Contest in 2022 and the Page Turner Awards 2022..
He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and children, and two blind dogs with people names.
