Alyssa Simmons

Alyssa Simmons is a creative producer and manager. She currently serves as the Assistant General Manager at The Public Theater where her primary responsibility is the Under The Radar Festival. Her interests run the gamut from devised performance to new plays to musicals to immersive experiences and live events. Alyssa pursues projects that challenge the idea of performance, broaden the form of storytelling, and, most importantly, make the audience experience something memorable.  She is a woman of two cities: her hometown of Los Angeles and her adopted city of New York. Alyssa holds a BA in Theater Studies and International Studies from Yale University and a MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama. She is a member of the 2018-2020 WP Theater Producers Lab, a member of Round 4 of Theatre Communication Group’s Rising Leaders of Color program, and a member of the 2018 Producer Farm cohort. Recent credits include serving as the producer on the 2018 Prelude Festival, the Associate Producer on Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and producer on freelance projects around the city.