{"id":4660,"date":"2022-01-03T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/?page_id=4660"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:01:01","slug":"a-j-allegra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/our-story\/staff\/a-j-allegra\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Allegra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4549\" src=\"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-1260x840.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-840x560.jpg 840w, https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJ-Allegra-Headshot-315x210.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A.J. Allegra is the current Artistic Director of The NOLA Project theatre company. He moved to\u00a0 New Orleans from his hometown of Chicago after graduating from NYU in 2007 and has resided\u00a0 in the city since that time. He has over thirty credits with the company as a director, writer, and\u00a0 actor and has been nominated for over twenty Big Easy Awards and has won two, for directing\u00a0 Assassins (2008) and acting in Mr. Marmalade (2009). Under his leadership, the company has\u00a0 formed many important cultural partnerships with area organizations, the most significant being\u00a0 The NOLA Project\u2019s unique partnership with The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). In 2012,\u00a0 he was named to Gambit Magazine\u2019s prestigious 40 Under 40 List. He holds a BFA in Theatre\u00a0 from NYU&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts, a Shakespeare in Performance Certification from RADA\u00a0 (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) in London, and MS in Nonprofit Leadership from the\u00a0 University of Pennsylvania. He currently heads the Musical Theatre division at Lusher Charter\u00a0 School and previously taught in the NOCCA Theatre Department for seven years.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.J. Allegra is the current Artistic Director of The NOLA Project theatre company. He moved to\u00a0 New Orleans from his hometown of Chicago after graduating from NYU in 2007 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":616,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660\/revisions\/4665"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeeasy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}