Alison Minami is an LA based writer, performer, and educator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from UC Riverside. She is a member of the playwrights labs at  Antaeus Theater, Company of Angels, and East West Players. Her play Face to the Sun has had professional readings at the Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation, East West Players, the Victory Gardens Theater, and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her play Dear Baby X was chosen for the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights’ New Works Reading in conjunction with East West Players. Her play Urban Scholars was a semi-finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival. Her one-act play Shizzy's Story was produced by Enrichment Works and toured across LAUSD schools. She was a member of Playground LA, a 10 minute play collective, for which her piece This is a Banana was selected for Season 6.  Her storytelling can be heard on the Moth Radio Hour.