Allison Strong

Who is Allison Strong?

Allison Trujillo Strong is an American actress, singer, writer and competition poetry reciter, known for her Broadway work in the musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Mamma Mia!. Strong, who began acting at age 7, won a national jingle-singing competition for Oscar Mayer at age 11, and appeared in local productions in and around her home of Union City, New Jersey since childhood, in venues such as the Park Performing Arts Center and Montclair State College, where she majored in musical theater. She has performed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and on the morning TV Show Good Morning America, for numerous governors of New Jersey, as well as at the White House and for Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.

Strong is also the 2008 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud champion, and wrote for the industry publication Back Stage in 2010.

She is the female lead in Perks, a musical webseries based on Stephen Chbosky's novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which premiered on YouTube in June 2011.