Current: Winner of the ArtsUp LA inaugural Veteran's Short Film Project, his screenplay, Breaking Up, was selected for production. See the story here.

 

After growing tired of sailing around the world with the Navy, Allen settled on writing the next great screenplay. While teaching military leadership and ethics at UW, he took classes on screenwriting for film and television. His first short script, A Simple Question, a drama about a family dealing with the death of a child, earned an accolade at Hollyshorts and was a Semi-Finalist with Stowe Story Labs Inaugural Production Grant. That short is currently in preproduction, where Allen will produce and direct.

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Allen's also seen success in the Horror genre, a short called Vigilant, about a Naval Officer who races to save her crew after a shapeshifting monster infiltrates her ship. It was a 2025 Killer Shorts Quarterfinalist and earned a "Recommend." Read it here.  

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He is also working on a sci-fi comedy series, Saving Time, about a military project led by a by-the-book Army Officer stuck leading a B-Team group of actors on missions through time that seem have little or no bearing on anything.

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He continues to write, as well as look for opportunities to act as a military advisor in film. He is an active part of different veteran's groups, such as VME and the Red Badge Project. 

 

Allen lives in the Seattle area where he spends his free time with his wife and teenage daughter... hopelessly trying to get them to share his love of Trent Reznor, NIИ, comics and video games.