Eliyana Abraham (she/they)
Eliyana Abraham is a director, performer, and teaching artist based in New York City. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied theatre and neuroscience. She is grateful to return to Princeton Summer Theater for her third summer with the company, having served as Artistic Director in 2023. Previous PST directing credits: The Last Five Years (2024); Peerless (2023); The Woman Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (2023). Other select directing credits: Affecting Expression, a new queer tragicomedy by Eliana Cohen-Orth (The Tank); Electric Syrup by Leah Plante-Weiner (We Who Wander NYC); Shrek the Musical (Princeton). Select performance credits: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Magenta) (Brooklyn Art Haus); King of the Yees (Actor 2/Whiskey Seller) (McCarter Theater); Pick-Nic (Nic Cage) (The Tank); LIZZIE the Musical (Alice) (Princeton). When not making theatre, Eliyana writes grants for an arts non-profit in Brooklyn.
Allison Spann (any pronouns)
Allison Spann is thrilled to return to campus this summer for her PST Directorial debut! A Brooklyn-based performance creator, she champions the power of voice and collaborative art-making as radical tools for healing. She is a multi-genre vocalist, actor, composer, music director, designer, producer, and director. Winner of the Princeton Concerto Competition, recipient of the Richardson Auditorium Artist in Residency, semifinalist at the O’Neill’s National Music Theater Conference, and winner of the Edward T. Cone Prize for music composition, performance, and scholarship, Spann has reached audiences from The Kennedy Center, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, and jazz clubs around the globe. They have worked as a soloist with Gustavo Dudamel, Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Archie Shepp, Billy Childs, Roomful of Teeth, and Darcy James Argue, among others. Spann holds a BA in music from Princeton University (magna cum laude) and shares her passion for education in her private music studio, where she teaches beginners and professionals alike. She constantly wreaks havoc on her carefully laid plans to become a cabaret legend by discovering new ways of storytelling and music making.