Kirsten Bloom Allen

Kirsten Bloom Allen is an American ballet dancer, actress and founder for ARC Entertainment Company, who appeared in multiple Sacramento Ballet productions, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet (2000), Swan Lake (2001), Dracula (2004), The Taming of the Shrew (2007), and The Nutcracker (2013).

Personal life Allen was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She began dancing when she was 5 years old. At age 10, her family moved to Florida, before she started dancing professionally with the Orlando Ballet when she was 16. In 1993, she starred as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, reprising the role in 2000 for the Sacramento Ballet.

In 2015, Allen portrayed Daisy Buchanan in a production of The Great Gatsby at San Diego State University and worked on the choreographed duet Beyond the Barre: Beer and Ballet influenced by Samson and Delilah in 2016.

In 2019, Allen performed at the Music Box San Diego with Brian Justin Crum for a Valentine's Day event. She started her own production company, ARC Entertainment Company, a cross between ballet, cinema, and rock music. Her company produced original suicide prevention videos for the songs "A Reason to Fight" and "The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed. perform backyard ballets, and host online dance classes through Zoom. During the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, she supplied a fellow dancer with medical supplies and food overseas to help destitute people.

Sacramento Ballet

Previously with the Southern Ballet Theatre and Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Allen joined the Sacramento Ballet in 1995, starring in many productions. Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, In 2009, Allen left the Sacramento Ballet on maternity leave. She returned in 2013 for a performance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. Coppélia Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Bay Ballet Theater Production

Con Amore Wife Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California The Rite of Spring Parisian Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California 1997 A Midsummer Night's Dream Hermia Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Don Quixote Dulcinea del Toboso Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Shared dancing role with Amy Seiwert The Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Swingtime Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Fluctuating Hemlines Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Rubies Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Soloist The Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy Paradise Performing Arts Center, Paradise, California Allegro Brillante Principal role Rough Draft University Theatre, California State University Swan Lake Odette / Black Swan Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

The Tempest Mondavi Center, UC Davis Western Symphony Mondavi Center, UC Davis

Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Voluntaries Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

Giselle Giselle Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Dracula Lucy Westenra Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

Beer & Ballet Sacramento Ballet Building Scheherazade Scheherazade Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

Apollo Majestic Theatre, Shanghai Etosha China Serenade Soloist Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California Souvenir Florence Foster Jenkins Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Dance Invitational The Taming of the Shrew Kate Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California The Nutcracker Mother / Sugar Plum Fairy Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

A Woman's Journey: The Tamsen Donner Story Dancer Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California By Ruth Whitman A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California The Sleeping Beauty Princess Aurora Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California

Capital Choreography Competition Crest Theatre Beer & Ballet Sacramento Ballet Studios Dancer and choreographer 2013 The Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy Community Center Theater, Sacramento, California 2015 The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan San Diego State University Good Morning America Herself 1 episode Backyard Ballet Holiday Celebration Herself Hosted by Joey Fatone Mother Ballerina Producer Herself Short documentary film Seeing Other People Key Ballerina Short film 2023 Don't Die Hard Farrah Fonteyn