Career
Allen began his career in 1962 as a set designer for Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He designed and built sets for many television shows such as Codco, Streets Cents, and Blizzard Island as well as for feature films and for Parks Canada and the Nova Scotia International Tattoo but is most famous as the creator of the models and sets for the popular children"s television series Theodore Tugboat as well as the vessel Theodore Too.