Allison McDermott

Allison has a variety of services to offer!

* CYCLES, a circus collaboration with Matica Arts. CYCLES is 45-minute adventure into the whimsical, upside down-world of 3 woodland beings! This show features aerial acrobatics, juggling, diabolo, unicycling and fun!
* This Is Artstagram! a show about art in the age of Instagram! This is Artstagram! is an original piece of circus-theater where the lead characters navigate the algorithms of Instagram on their quest to reach 100K followers. It features juggling, balancing, laughter and selfies. Lots of selfies.
* Roving stilt walking, juggling and diabolo entertainment.
* 'Open Suitcase' experience: event attendees can learn and try out juggling equipment!

Allison McDermott is a circus artist raised and trained at the Oddfellows Playhouse Children’s Circus of Middletown in Connecticut. She continued her circus education at the New England Center for Circus Arts in their Professional Track Program, where she studied aerial hoop and hand balancing. Allison resides in Connecticut where she trains circus, performs circus, teaches circus and... yes, does mostly all things circus. Some of her credits include Detective Lestrade in Cirqularity’s Sherlock Holmes and the Sapphire Night, a Fairy Aerialist/Acrobat in ARTFARM’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Emilie Du Chatelet in ARTFARM’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Little Apple Circus. She is currently touring her two most recent creative works; CYCLES, a whimsical circus collaboration with Matica Arts and This is Artstagram!, a self-written and self-directed circus-theater hybrid.