HI! MY NAME IS ALLY MUSMECI!

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Headshots of Ally

I grew up in New Orleans, where art and culture flourish. And from the day that she was born, she was – well – different. I grew up loving rock and roll, anything lavender, and with a dream of moving to New York. I knew this place was home. And not just in a “this is where all the opportunities are!” kind of way, but more like in a romantic, this-city-calls-to-me kind of way.

 

I know this sounds like a “I’m not like other girls” thing, but it’s not, I swear.
In fact I am. I am exactly like other girls.

But not in a leading lady kind of way. I’m like your dream girl adjacent. Yes, technically, I am six feet tall, with long brown hair, and bright, beautiful, big, blue eyes. But I’m, like, more like a noodle, the brown hair is a faded quarantine yellow at the ends, and the eyes are almost grey? Which still makes for a fabulous character! But which one?

 
Ally on a rooftop doing peace signs with her hands

This has been an ongoing confrontation of mine since college, where if you don’t have a “type” then why do you even act. Especially when a professor of mine suggested I leave and apply to clown college… I found a love for design and the better I got or the more I learned or the newer projects I took on, the more they would tell me “You know, you can’t do both. You’re either on the stage, or you’re not.”

I thought to myself “How do people survive this? Isn’t the point of acting so that I DON’T have to be myself? Isn't the point of learning new stuff so that you can create new work? I barely even know who I am, how am I supposed to get it down to two words, especially when I should be able to do other stuff?!”

 

Upon my graduation, I realized I was only being allowed to explore one thing or the other.
I became enraged. “But I’m good at it all! Why is that a bad thing?!” So instead of choosing which one to reject – I began to harness. There had to be a way to stack hats. There has to be a use for it and I set out to find it.

 
Ally on a rooftop

When I finished my Atlantic training, I realized how very boring mainstream theatre was getting. In a world that was begging for provocative, thoughtful theatre, in a world where everything was at stake, there were three versions of My Fair Lady on Broadway…

I began getting uncomfortable, growing out of my clothes. I thought waking up at five am for auditions was going to be the end of the road. But I don’t want to go sing in Ohio for a month (no tea no shade!).

I started directing my attention towards new work. New films, new musicals, reimagined classics – with purpose and importance. 

 

I have tons of experience – producing, writing, directing, acting, designing...
But what makes me different? Honestly?

I’m the best one. 

Of what? You may ask… 

Of anything. I’m the best anything-you-need artist you’re ever gonna ever meet.

 

SO, WHO DO YOU NEED?