Allyn's play, Buying In, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play, Commencement, was selected for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. and won a Writers Digest award. His play Punctuated Equilibrium received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in Ithaca, New York. His play Writers Colony appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City, and Baptizing Adam won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. According to The New York Times, Allyn is "a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best."
