Chris McAllister
Christopher McAllister is currently a freelance arts and entertainment artist in the Greensburg area, and the technical director and an adjunct instructor of theatre at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. He has worked for over 10 years at the Stage Right School for the Performing Arts in Greensburg in various positions including resident musical director, production manager, and executive and artistic director, working on over 100 productions in his 10 years there. He worked on several new musicals, helping new writers bring their work to life for the first time (Local Singles, The Crinolynns, and Romero & Juliet), collaborated with Broadway artists to student performers, and helped set a Guinness Book of World Record for the fastest production of a musical. He routinely music directors for Split Stage Productions, most recently working on Avenue Q. He’s a graduate of IUP, a former middle/high school choral teacher, the organist two churches in the Greensburg area, and has been a guest director and clinician for several choral festivals, music clinics, and events in PA. He is also a lighting and sound designer, and pit musician for many high schools in the Westmoreland County area.