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Biography

ALISON MEAD

Actor/ Teacher/Director
MA; BA Hons; IPA cert; RSA Dip; RBC Dip;

Alison Mead is an experienced actress, director and teacher. She has been acting tutor at Arts Ed London on the Musical Theatre course and has directed many productions, including "Girls Night Out", a devised piece which was seen at the National Theatre as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge; a schools tour of Macbeth set in Africa with three different couples and a devised piece on Peer Pressure shown at the (formerly) Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks. Other directing credits include "The Untold Story" at Morden Hall Park for the National Trust and Pajama Game at Sevenoaks Playhouse, where she has also adjudicated for the Sevenoaks Drama Festival.
Workshops include "The History Boys" for ATG and NT and Playing Chekhov at The Actors Centre/ Theatre Museum. She was tutor for Act Two classes at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and has run workshops for schools on The Rivals and Sweeney Todd for ATG.

Her theatre appearances include Hamlet, Anna Weiss, The Importance of Being Earnest and for Eastern Angles she toured in "Bone Harvest". Alison has also been seen at the Churchill Theatre Bromley in a new play - "The House on the Other Shore". Her most recent theatre credits are “Murder in the Cathedral” at the actors’ church, Covent Garden and a tour of “Crown Matrimonial” with Patricia Routledge.
Her Television roles include: Wycliffe(HTV) ;How we Used to Live, Jill and Jack (YTV); and most recently, Casualty (BBC)
Film roles include Pamela in "Yam" shown at the National Film Theatre ,Diane in "Prey for the Future" and various wives and mothers in "Thick Green Line" "Eileen" and "Blood Bond". “Mummy’s Boy”, filmed in January this year, is currently in post-production.