Terri Allen is a Washington, D.C. singer and actress and has performed cabaret, musical revue and theatre. Noted for her warm, rich tones and superb interpretations, she covers materials from the Great American Songbook and contemporary theater and cabaret writers.

Terri’s show, Portraits in Time was performed for Going Solo: A Showcase of Fabulous Females for Horizons Theatre, and at the Source Theatre Cabaret Series. With local chanteuse Beverly Cosham, she performed the show, I Choose Love at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

She appeared as Malla in the Kennedy Center’s historic Sondheim Festival production of A Little Night Music. She also portrayed the glamorous Mae West in Horizons Theatre production of Sexual Icons and the cabaret singer, Libby Holman for In Good Company. Terri has appeared in other Horizons’ productions including the musical revues Hot and Bothered, Masquerade, A . . . My Name Will Always Be Alice, A . . . My Name is Alice, and Sylvia’s Real Good Advice.

Terri also performs regularly with the DC Cabaret Network and has been featured in their shows Naked Cabaret, Emotionally that is! for the first DC Fringe Festival, Cabaret to Cabernet at the Kennedy Center, and The Best Songs You Never Heard featuring New York singer/songwriter talent Rick Jensen. Other cabaret evenings include Arts on Foot, Stop The Presses I and II, A Holiday Cabaret, A Cabaret Celebration, Heartsongs and Spring Fling.

Terri has also worked with the IN Series, Source Theatre, Arena Stage, Theatre Fetu, and Ms. Foggybottom and has performed at Black Rock Center for the Arts and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Terri attended the Cabaret Symposium hosted by the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut.

Terri is also a lyricist. She has collaborated with local composer Todd Hahn on several songs, including A Family of Friends for the American Red Cross, A Portrait of America for the U.S. Census Bureau, and songs for theatre projects including Secret Lives for That Takes Ovaries!, and Reflections for The Body Project, which she also recorded.The Telephone Song, about a woman waiting by the telephone for a boyfriend to call, has been featured in several cabaret shows.