About

I’m Alison Petrash-Hall (she/they), a writer, painter, and extremely amateur comedian with ADHD. Since graduating from the University of Evansville in 2014 with a B.S. in Communications (yes, you can get a bachelor of science in that), I’ve worked at a PBS/NPR affiliate station, a branding agency, and a public university.

Recently, I had an Archaic Torso of Apollo moment. There wasn’t any avoiding my desire to work professionally as a creative anymore.

I’ve had dreams since childhood of making movies, publishing poetry, and other creative pursuits. But in an ultimate act of procrastination, I aged 34 years without doing any of that. While still young, I’ve missed many milestones that would have made finding work in my desired field significantly easier, namely building contacts through art or film school. So here I am, on my own, doing my least favorite thing—hustling.

I currently have a finished screenplay that I’ll be submitting to contests, and in the meantime I’m attempting to curate an online and social media presence. I went to school to do this very thing for other people/brands, but promoting yourself is a different, uncomfortably psychologically revealing animal. There are many incredibly talented people you should be paying attention to before getting to me, people I’d rather be talking about, but I have to lie to you and tell you I should get your attention first. Can you just play along?

My background

I’m an agender lesbian who had a sheltered, religious upbringing in the Midwest, which seems to be en vogue right now. We Midwesterners are apparently very mysterious and even desirable to the coastal and unbaptized parts of the country. I’ve lived in Missouri and Indiana. My new home is Louisville, Kentucky, which is considered the South.

I don’t know why Louisville is Southern and my last home, Evansville, Indiana, is Midwestern even though it was geographically further south. I just listen to my native Kentuckian wife, an incredibly chill, open-minded person who got visibly offended when I suggested Kentucky was at least partially in the Midwest.