Alyssa Rallo Bennett
Director / Producer / SINGER-SONGWRITER
Alyssa Rallo Bennett is an award winning filmmaker, whose films have premiered & featured in festivals from Tribeca to Newport Beach, Soho Film Festival to Beverly Hills FF, Woodstock Film Festival and many more. Known in the music world as a singer/songwriter Rallo Bennett, she was born and raised in NYC, and trained at NYU Tisch-Drama, and began her career working with iconic directors such as Zeffirelli, Scorsese, Robert Benton, Andre Gregory, Robert Lewis and Tom Fontana.
Developing and co-producing Rain Without Thunder (Berlin Film Festival, starring Jeff Daniels, Ming-Na Wen & Steve Zahn), a human rights drama, she went on to direct her first feature, The Pack (Tribeca Film Festival, starring Lucie Arnaz & Elisabeth Moss), followed by Aberrant (Jack Quaid, Tibor Feldman), ReRUN (Christopher Lloyd), and her most recent feature, The Arrival (Gravitas Ventures, starring Pooya Mohseni).
Her notable festival shorts (Newport Beach, Soho FF, Beverly Hills FF) include Compulsion, Crowbar, The Finance of Art, and The Dishwasher. Most recently, she directed a new pilot, SCARECROW, starring Marin Hinkle and Kate Arrington. Alyssa is also the co-founder of Stonestreet Studios and the creator of the Tisch Drama–affiliated Screen Acting & Production Residency, where she has mentored talents such as Rachel Sennott, Miles Teller, Nik Walker, Rachel Brosnahan, and many others.
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