Allison Cohn is as an independent Casting Director and Talent Booker with over twenty-five years of experience casting and booking a wide variety of projects, with a focus and expertise in the comedy space and with comedic talent.

Allison started her career in Los Angeles, working in the Talent Department at Comedy Central, finding comedians and comedic talent for the network's various series. She discovered, championed, and booked numerous comedians at the start of their career who are now well known. Following her time at Comedy Central, she worked in the Talent & Casting department at MTV first in Los Angeles and then in New York, where she cast the network's pilots and series, pinpointed emerging talent for casting and development, and produced comedy showcases for network executives featuring up and coming talent that would be a good fit for the network. Following MTV, she held a staff position in the Casting Department at ABC Primetime Television in the New York office, where she became more familiar with NYC based actors, both comedic and dramatic, through the audition process for series regular roles on ABC/ABC Studios primetime scripted pilots and series. In 2009, she went out on her own.

Allison currently casts and books a wide variety of projects including sketch shows, adult animated series, live action scripted pilots and series, standup competition reality shows, hidden camera shows, talent driven talk shows, panel shows, talking head shows, commercial campaigns, promos, and more.

From 2022-2025 she worked as a consultant with Just For Laughs to find the best up and coming stand-up comedians and character performers in the country for their Montreal festival’s New Faces of Comedy program.