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Jo Harvey Allen is an American writer, actress, and artist. Education. Allen was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, to a dress shop manager mother and a carpenter father.
Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher).
Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher).
Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for her numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called “A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition” by the LA Weekly, “Funny, Amazing, Profound…a knockout performer and writer who vanishes into her luminous material!” by LA ...
A review of Jo Harvey's works for stage and film coupled with the actress and writer's comments on her early experiences and how her work has evolved.
Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for her numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called "A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition" by the LA Weekly, "Funny, Amazing, Profound...a knockout performer and writer who vanishes into her luminous material!"
Jo Harvey and her husband, Terry Allen, escaped their hometown of Lubbock, Texas to start a new life in the growing cultural frontier of early 1960s Los Angeles. As Jo Harvey tells in this interview, her life blossomed through a series of chance events and encounters, and a missed radio interview with Waylon Jennings.
