Alan Neal Levy (He/They) is a theatre artist, writer and retired teacher. He was a teenage hippie with ties to Hartford Connecticut especially the North End and Downtown. His adopted parents both graduated from Weaver High School – in the beautiful building that now houses MLK Middle School. Sylvia Geetter Levy grew up the youngest of seven kids in a cold flat on Elmer St. Lenny Levy grew up in a two-family house on Colebrook St. Ironically, Alan’s first full-time teaching assignment was at the "new" Weaver High School on Granby St., which was recently rebuilt. Most of his childhood was in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pershing Park, where Keeney Park was his back yard. When he was 11, he went to the Boys & Girls Club that opened in Bowles Park. More often, he rode his bicycle to the Modern Drug Store on Blue Hills Ave. or the Hartford Public Library branch on Albany Avenue.
As a young adult, Alan lived in Hartford – first on Sigourney St. and then on Capitol Ave. After teaching at Weaver, he was hired as the Director of the non-profit Youth Theatre Unlimited. He was the last person to walk through the Old Place Theatre, where YTU was operating, before it was demolished to make way for State House Square. Alan then founded Hartford Children's Theatre, which closed after 20 years. He lived in the South End (Zion St.) for the first five years running HCT - across from the Trinity Rocks, where he learned to dance Salsa at concerts and parties in the park. Alan moved to Mansfield, where he still resides. After leaving Hartford Children's Theatre, he taught at Coventry High School for ten years. Then he taught at the International School of Port of Spain in the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, where he became addicted to doubles, a popular street food. He also taught at Española Valley High School in Española, New Mexico before returning to CT. Alan then taught at one of Hartford's magnet high schools - Pathways Academy of Technology & Design. He served two years as a Curriculum Specialist for Hartford Public Schools before completing his final teaching assignment in Beijing China.