“Portland storyteller and comic Ash Allen is on something of a roll.” - OPB
2026 Portland’s Funniest Person Semi-Finalist, 2026 Willamette Week’s Funniest Five, and 2025 Best of Portland Comedy Top 3, Ash is known for her quick wit and tall-yet-true stories shared on stages across the country.
“Allen’s simple folding of story and comedy produces sets that are at once moving, revelatory and pants-pissingly hilarious”-Willamette Week
Originally from Mississippi, Ash grew up as a critter-obsessed tomboy running through the woods. Her comedy and storytelling are rooted in the red clay hills, kudzu-lined highways, and squirrel-infested thickets that she called home.
2026 Helium Comedy Club’s
Portland’s Funniest Person Round 1 Winner 6/28/26
WW’s Funniest 5
“In a city of transplants, Allen stands out as someone so uniquely Portland-coded it’s almost uncanny. It’s as if a caricature of a Portland lesbian walked off a page and onto a stage. But that twang is authentic, as is Allen’s simple folding of story and comedy to produce sets that are at once moving, revelatory and pants-pissingly hilarious.
Allen has a universal appeal disarming enough to cradle audiences large and small across the gender spectrum.” - Brianna Wheeler, Willamette Week, Feb 2026
2026 Willamette Week’s Funniest Five
