Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13 — a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting who also took courses in the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre and Comedy programs —will present a concert performance of his new musical Amy Adams Wins an Oscar on Tuesday, September 21, at New York City’s premier musical-theatre cabaret Feinstein’s/54 Below, located at 254 W. 54th St. in Manhattan’s Theatre District. Doors open at 9 PM for the 9:45 PM performance (Eastern time). For tickets, click here.

Preston Max Allen

As previously reported in this blog, Allen’s musical We Are the Tigers ran Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks in New York City’s East Village in 2019. That show’s original-cast album is now streaming via Apple Music. At the time of that show’s run, Allen was profiled by the show-business news publication Playbill in an article titled “How Preston Max Allen Came Into His Identity as a Musical Theatre Writer and a Proud Trans Man,” in which Allen recounted how his experience at Columbia College helped him realize that his primary interest was writing for the musical theatre. “All the other women in my program are substantially more talented than I am,” he remembers thinking when he was a student at Columbia. “I still love writing. I love to write for these women, I’d love to create work for these women.”

Preston Max Allen

Allen is also the composer of Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody), which received its world premiere in 2017 from Chicago’s Underscore Theatre.