American director
David Allyn (born April 30, 1969) is an American author, educator, and consultant to nonprofit organizations.[ 1] [ 2]
Personal life
Allyn is the stepson of the late John Wallach , founder of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace .[ 3] Allyn graduated from the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from Harvard University . From 1996–1999, he taught at Princeton University . In 2014 he was named CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program. In February 2016 he was elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).[ 1]
Books and articles
Allyn is the author of four books, including Make Love, Not War [ 4] [ 5] and I Can't Believe I Just Did That ,[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] and has served as a faculty member at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.[ 9] His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. While an undergraduate at Brown University , Allyn co-authored a book on transferring from one college to another. He and his co-author (later wife) were profiled in The Washington Post and featured on CNN . He has also published articles in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ,[ 10] The Journal of American Studies ,[ 11] Teachers College Record ,[ 12] The Advocate , The Washington Post , The New York Daily News , The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle . As an expert on the 1960s, Allyn has appeared on Vh1,[ 13] The History Channel,[ 14] and CNN.[ 15]
Plays
Allyn's play, Buying In , was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play, Commencement , was selected for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.[ 16] and won a Writer's Digest award.[ 17] His play Punctuated Equilibrium received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in Ithaca, New York .[ 18] His play Writers Colony appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City,[ 19] and Baptizing Adam [ 20] won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. According to The New York Times , Allyn is "a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best."[ 9]
Concepts
Allyn's original concepts include "strategic empathy ,"[ 21] denoting the deliberate use of perspective-taking to achieve certain desired ends; "mission mirroring,"[ 22] the phenomenon that occurs when mission-based organizations become plagued by the very problems they were created to solve; and "sexual optimism (pessimism),"[ 23] the view of human sexuality as benign (or dangerous).
References
^ a b "Staff – Oliver Scholars" . Oliverscholars.org . Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
^ "Interview with David Allyn, CEO of Oliver Scholars" . Resident Community . 2017-07-06. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2017-08-31 .
^ "Janet Wallach | Seeds of Peace" . Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-06-25 .
^ Tiger, Lionel (March 19, 2000). "Turned In, Turned On" . The New York Times . Retrieved January 29, 2010 .
^ "Book Reviews". Peace & Change . 27 (4): 641–667. 2002. doi :10.1111/1468-0130.00249 . ISSN 1468-0130 .
^ "Nonfiction Book Review: I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How (Seemingly) Small Embarrassments Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life-And What You Can Do to Put a Stop to Them by David Allyn" . PublishersWeekly.com . Retrieved 2017-02-13 .
^ Parmar, Neil (May 1, 2004). "Self-Conscious? Get Over It" . Psychology Today . Retrieved January 29, 2010 .
^ Gizowska, Eva (May 9, 2004). "Mind I'm so sorry, but do you mind reading this? Are you self-conscious, easily embarrassed, endlessly apologising?" . The Independent on Sunday . Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2009 .
^ a b Morris, Bob (January 11, 2004). "The Age of Dissonance; Red-Faced to Meet You" . The New York Times . Retrieved October 19, 2009 .
^ [1] [permanent dead link ]
^ David Allyn, "Private Acts/Public Policy: Alfred Kinsey, the American Law Institute and the Privatization of American Sexual Morality,"
Journal of American Studies, Volume 30, Issue 03, December 1996, pp 405–428
^ Volume 107, Number 7 (2005)
^ "Sex: The Revolution" . Variety.com . 2008-05-11.
^ [2] [dead link ]
^ " "The Seventies" Battle of the Sexes (TV Episode 2015)" . IMDb.com . Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
^ "Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic" . Baltimoresun.com . Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
^ "2009 Stage Play Script Winners" . Writersdigest.com . 2009-10-16.
^ "Welcome" . Hangartheatre.org . Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
^ Haagensen, Erik (July 15, 2009). "Writers Colony" . Backstage . Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2009 .
^ Weber, Bruce (August 30, 2002). "A Study of Lonely Souls, One of Them With a Gun" . The New York Times . Retrieved October 19, 2009 .
^ "The Tao of Doing Good (SSIR)" . ssir.org . Retrieved 2017-02-12 .
^ Allyn, David (2010). "Mission Mirroring: Understanding Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations". Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly . 40 (4): 762–769. doi :10.1177/0899764010370869 . S2CID 145136327 .
^ Allyn, David (2000). Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History . New York: Little, Brown.
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