Allison Cohn works as an independent Casting Director and Talent Booker, with over twenty years of experience working in comedy and casting a wide variety of (mostly television) projects. 

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 moved on to work 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 Television in the New York office, where she became 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, starting her own casting company. As an independent Casting Director and Talent Booker she works on a variety of projects including sketch shows, adult animated series, live action scripted pilots and series, hidden camera shows, talent driven talk shows, panel shows, talking head shows, commercials, promos, and more.

In addition to casting and booking for television, from 2022 to 2024 she worked with Just For Laughs as their Executive Talent Consultant for the New Faces of Comedy program, selecting the best group of up-and-coming stand-up comedians and character performers in the country, to perform at the highly anticipated industry showcase held in Montreal in July.