Allison Heishman is the Artistic Director of the award winning Simpatico Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. She is a freelance director and educator based in Philadelphia. Directing credits include: with Azuka Theatre (former Artistic Associate): Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), The Arsonists (NNPN RWP), Local Girls (WP), The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, Skin & Bone (WP), Failure: A Love Story, Hazard County, the terrible girls (WP), Azuka One Acts. Other credits: Failure: A Love Story (Arcadia University), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (UArts), Tartuffe (Commonwealth Classic), Macbeth (Revolution Shakespeare), Rabbit Hole, Eurydice (Ruhl, Arcadia), No Reservations (PNAA Productions, WP), Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (Plays & Players), Pinkalicious, the musical (Walnut Street Theater, Kids' Series), A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity, Spacewang (Tiny Dynamite, A Play A Pie A Pint, Barnes Foundation). Heishman was the Assistant Director under Blanka Zizka for the Wilma Theater’s productions of Angels in America, parts I and II. She has written and directed for Theatre Programs at the National Constitution Center, she directed Living News, a fast-paced show geared towards middle and high school students that discusses current events and the Constitution. Former Senior Lecturer at the (former) University of the Arts and Rowan University. Proud alumna of Washington College, Chestertown, MD.