Alison Matthews

Alison is a voice specialist in the Drama Department at the University of Alberta, and Head Voice & Text Coach at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare, where she has coached over forty productions for the festival since 2008. A founding faculty member at the Arts Club Actor's Intensive Training Program, She also taught for five years with the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. As a speech trainer, she has worked with academics at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at U.B.C., with immigrant and refugee women at the Vancouver Chapter of The Shoe Project, and with community leaders at Leadership Vancouver Island. For the past twenty years she has adjudicated for competitive speech festivals across Western Canada. With three decades of wide-ranging professional acting experience, Alison has numerous film and television credits, including The X-Files, iZombie, Battlestar Galactica, and Disney's Snowdogs. She has stage credits with the former Vancouver Playhouse, Victoria's Belfry Theatre, and The Firehall Arts Centre's BC Buds: Spring Arts Festival and has been in demand as a professional voice-over artist for over thirty years. Alison holds a M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of British Columbia, and an Associate Diploma in Drama & Speech from Trinity College London. Learn more at: www.alisonmatthews.com