The Jewish Ninja (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499776843)

Allegra Saens Coleman was awarded a scholarship to attend The Moore College of Art and was chosen to narrate an ABC educational series for children before she entered her teens. She delved into poetry and acted in many productions at The Society Hill Playhouse and Villinova Summer Shakespeare along with performing an aerial acrobatic routine from thirty-foot rafters at The London Victory Club. After graduating from Friends Select, she earned her BFA in drama from USC and then performed throughout the US and in Europe. After a holiday visit to Philadelphia, she was forced to stay because of a life-threatening brain tumor. While convalescing, she found that writing relieved her precarious physical, mental, spiritual and emotional distress. Though she was bedridden and weak, the written word enabled her to express herself with power that had not been previously realized. While recovering she wrote a play entitled Gorilla Dance, for which she received The Florida State Grant for Emerging Playwrights, and her second play entitled Fire of The Earth was given an award from Stageworks Production that included a staged reading at the Tampa Theatre. Despite these writing successes, she pursued and received her JD from Temple University in June 1999. In July of 1999 she was offered a business opportunity to create and develop TPDS Club, and under her management, TPDS evolved into a highly successful event space. In 2003 Allegra changed her focus to her family, though she always fit some time to pursue her writing, whether an article, poem, or The Jewish Ninja. In 2010, Allegra was diagnosed with MS, causing her energy and ability to work on an employer's schedule impossible. Therefore, she and her partner, Dolores Browne, created DesignReasons. com, a high-end furniture, art, and accessories business on the Internet. Choosing the most innovative and eye-catching items was the concept for this site. In a very real and tangible way, the story of Alexia portrays Allegra's hope, faith and belief that though it is possible that she may not be physically able to shepherd her children's development at a time of severe importance, the foundation she has provided in conjunction with the pillars of family, cultural and religious support will mystically converge in a way that will enable her children to evolve to their full intellectual, spiritual, moral and physical potential and emerge into the understanding of their own self-identity.