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BROADWAY.COM
"FRESH FACE"
Age: 28
Currently: In rehearsals
for the Revelation Theater mounting of David Wiltse's thriller
Temporary Help, in which he plays a drifter who may or may
not be a serial killer. The production, co-starring Margaret
Colin and Robert Cuccioli, is scheduled to begin performances
off-Broadway on November 12. Allen says: "At this point in
rehearsal you always go: 'Oh my God! We have so much to do!'
You [wonder] how you are ever going to get there. Then you
always do."
Hometown: Long Beach,
California. Allen, born Chad Lazzari, began his career acting
in regional musical theater productions. By the age of nine,
he landed the plum recurring role of autistic Tommy Westphall
in the hit television series St. Elsewhere--and from there
his small screen career took off.
Teen King: With major
roles in St. Elsewhere, Webster, Our House and My Two Dads
already under his belt and boyish good looks, Allen spent
his teens as a pin-up boy. "I was a teen magazine guy," he
says. "They put your face everywhere. And you read these articles
about this guy who is really wonderful and you wonder who
it is they're talking about, because it doesn't seem to resemble
you at all. It's very bizarre." A
Creative Outlet: Allen
graduated to adult roles in 1993 when he landed a prime part
in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Though he loved working on the
show (he describes his time there as "six years of playing
cowboy and getting dirty"), it wasn't enough to fulfill him.
He joined forces with Young and the Restless star Heather
Tom in 1995 to form Creative Outlet, a non-profit Los Angeles-based
theater company. "We were kind of sick of our television lives,
and we wanted to do some new theater," the actor explains.
"None of the companies we saw in L.A. were doing interesting
things, so we [decided to do] it ourselves. We've done some
interesting stuff that kept us active and kind of saved my
soul as an actor between the big money gigs."
Get Him Some Help: Allen
has appeared in Temporary Help twice before, first at Seattle's
ACT in 1999 and then at the Westport Country Playhouse last
year. "Obviously, I like the play," Allen states. "I've seen
audiences go through such bizarre experiences with it. There
are very few pieces of theater that I've seen people actively
involved in like they are [with this]. I don't think at any
point you really have a handle on where the show is going--you
can never really get a grasp on the characters."
Temporary Move?: Allen
still has a home in California, but the actor, who is also
on the Revelation Theater Artistic Advisory Board, may become
a permanent Gotham fixture. "I have been wanting to be in
New York for a long time but television has always kept me
in L.A, so I am finally here, and I am going to stay for at
least a little while. There is a lot going on here that I
am ready to sink my teeth into."
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