Alison teaches Voice in the drama department at the University of Alberta. She is also Head of Coaching for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver, BC, where she has coached over 40 productions since 2008. She has three decades of professional acting experience, working in film and tv, theatre and voice-over. Previous coaching credits include Arcadia, West Side Story, Sense & Sensibility (Citadel), Noises Off (Arts Club); Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in Love (Bard on the Beach).