Growing up in Farmersville, Texas, Allyson West had dreams of being an actress. She applied to theater schools around the country and ended up at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in acting.
These days, West is on the other side of the camera in her day job as a producer and director at Kroger Co., making marketing and training videos. In 2017, she founded the Cindependent Film Festival, a passion project that has grown into…
