Alan Neal Levy (He/They) is a writer, theatre artist and retired teacher. Alan was a teenage hippie with strong ties to Hartford Connecticut especially the North End and Downtown. Their 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 children 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 Alan's childhood was in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pershing Park, where Keney Park was their back yard. When they were 11, Alan went to the Boys and Girls Club that opened in Bowles Park. More often, they rode their 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 HS, they were hired as the Director of Youth Theatre Unlimited. Alan 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 recently closed after 24 years. They lived in the South End (Zion St.) for the first four years running HCT - across from the Trinity Rocks, where they learned to dance Salsa at concerts and parties in the park. In 1992, Alan Neal Levy bought a house in Mansfield. After leaving Hartford Children's Theatre, they taught at Coventry High School for nine years. Then Alan taught at the International School of Port of Spain in the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, where they became addicted to doubles, a popular street food. They also taught at Española Valley High School in Española, New Mexico before returning to Conn. Alan then taught at one of Hartford's magnet high schools - Pathways Academy of Technology and Design. They served two years as a Curriculum Specialist for Hartford Public Schools before completing their final teaching assignment in Beijing China.