Alyssa Rallo Bennett directed and co-wrote the award-winning feature film The Pack, starring Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss, Zach Galligan, accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival and featured in over dozen others, now streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi as is ReRUN, starring Christopher Lloyd, Teo Rapp-Olsson, Sydney Farley et al, premiered closing night of the Woodstock Film Festival where Alyssa was nominated for their Maverick Award as director also had a NYC premiere opening night of the Big Apple Film Festival, won Best Narrative Feature, Best Ensemble, Best Original Story, Best Featured Actor (Christopher Lloyd), Best Young Actor (Teo Rapp-Olson), Best Editing and Honorable Mention for Best Director at the Northeast Film Festival, was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Los Angeles Film Awards and the Sydney Independent Film Festival now streaming on AppleTV, Tubi, Amazon Prime.

Two new films she directed just world premiered in the 2023 Soho Independent Film Festival, and Newport Beach Film Festival, Compulsion, starring Saori Goda, Mizz and Sebastian Mora, written by Gary O. Bennett, and Crowbar starring Rosalyn Coleman & Jaylen Axel, written by Craig Williams.  Her new feature film, The Arrival, to be distributed by Gravitas Ventures, just world premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Film Festival October 15th, the NYC premiere opening night at Big Apple Film Festival at Cinema Village on November 3rd. 

Alongside her partner, Gary Bennett, Alyssa developed, and acted in Rain Without Thunder starring Jeff Daniels, Linda Hunt, Steve Zahn, Ming Na Wen, now on Amazon Prime was theatrically released and distributed by Orion Classics, featured in over a dozen major international film festivals from the Berlin Film Festival to the Toronto International Film Festival, distributed by Warner Brothers and available now on Amazon Prime. Consequently she directed their pilots Paradise By The Dashboard Light featuring Francesca Reale and Sea Shimooka, which won Best Pilot at Hoboken Film Festival, Videola, featuring Gil Zabarsky, Janet Zarish and Malcom Mills. 

Many of the festival shorts she’s directed continue to stream on ShortsTV and StonestreetTV, including Them, Oswald, Uberpool, The Celebrity of Art, Hopeful, Nowhere Girl, Trudy Gets Tindered, The Same Old… Basquait, Leading Story, Ink on Her Hands et al. Alyssa has also directed several Public Service Announcements for American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, Housing Works and a spot for Families of Freedom starring Susan Sarandon supporting children survivors of the 9/11.

Last year her album ANYMORE was released on all platforms receiving wonderful reviews, playing 4 live shows including Rockwood Music Hall, 76 House & The Bitter End, where she played again this past summer, new songs soon to be released. This year as member of the Yesters, Kingston City Morgue was released on all platforms. 

Alyssa trained with Robert Lewis, renowned Group Theater & Yale School of Drama Director and co-founder of the Actors Studio, Nikos Psacharopolis Williamstown Theater Founder, and actor David Margulies, (Dressed to Kill, Sopranos) and Meisner technique at Ensemble Studio Theater and holds a BFA from NYU Tisch Drama and a Masters in Theater, Drama & Psychology from NYU Gallatin.  She has worked with such directors as Andre Gregory, Tom Fontana, Martin Scorsese, among others.  

She is the co-founder of independent film studio, Stonestreet Studios, that produces socially provocative films, and where she created the exclusive Stonestreet Screen Acting & Production Residency Program for NYU Tisch Drama, that has developed many wonderful actors, directors and hyphenates such as Miles Teller, Rachel Brosnahan, Nik Walker (Hamilton), Camila Mendes, Danny Ramirez, Beanie Feldstein, Idina Menzel, Ximena Lamadrid (Bardo), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms) et al.