 Allen appeared as legendary Harlem jazz queen Florence Mills in "Harlem Renaissance" at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.More recently, Allen has headed the New Works/Staged Reading Projects at Saddleback College, and is writing and directing new shows which Allen calls "plays with music", which have been presented at Saddleback, notably an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and "The Journey", both with composer David Jayden Anthony.In 2017, Allen appeared in the film "The Divorce," released on Amazon, and starred in "Hello, Dolly" at Saddlebacks CLO.