Alison McKenna - Actress / Theater Producer

Acting Resume

Alison trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College and works extensively in Ireland, NY
and the UK on stage & screen.

Most recently Alison played 'Roisin’ in Quake by Janet Moran, Dublin Theatre Festival 2023

Other stage credits include

Bloomsday On Broadway - New York directed by Jim Culleton

Down Off His Stilts - New York and Washington, for the Abbey Theatre

The Dead by James Joyce, a version by F McGuinness directed by Joe Dowling, Abbey Theatre Dublin.

Further work at the Abbey Theatre includes: The Rivals (Julia), the
premier of Tom Murphy’s version of The Cherry Orchard (Varya), The
Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolyn), the premier of Tom Murphy’s
She Stoops To Folly (Olivia), Moses Rock (Joan). The Colleen Bawn (Anne Chute) directed by Conall
Morrison, for which she was nominated in the Irish Times Best
Supporting Actress category & the premier of Tom Kilroy’s version of
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Stepdaughter) directed by John
Crowley.

For the Gate theatre, Dublin Alison appeared in the Irish premiers of
the adaptations of Jane Eyre by Fay Weldon, Pride &
Prejudice (Lydia) by James Maxwell & Hugh Leonard’s world premier
adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (Estella).

Alison played Claire in Brian Friel’s Aristocrats at the Gate in
Dublin & on tour at the Lincoln Center NY

U.K. theatre includes: Ibsen’s The Lady From The Sea (Bolette) in a
new version by Frank Mc Guinness directed by Hannah Eidinow & An
Enemy Of The People (Mrs. Stockmann) in a new version by Rebecca
Lenkiewicz.
Mutabilitie (Annas) by Frank McGuinness directed by Trevor Nunn &
Night Of the Iguana (Charlotte) by Tennessee Williams directed by
Richard Eyre, both at the National Theatre, London; A Woman of No
Importance (Hester) directed by Marianne Elliot at the Manchester
Royal Exchange.

As Producer

Alison co-founded b*spoke theatre company and has produced award winning Irish premiers and world premiers. See www.dinnerwithgroucho.com 2022

From Out The Land, Decade Of Centenary Project, Clonmel Junction Arts 2023

St Brigid’s Day London inaugural event 2018 & part two, 2019. Irish Embassy London

Centenary of 1916 for New York Irish Consulate / Dept Foreign Affairs at Battery Park for 5,000 people on 24 th April 2016

Saloneire100.com a multi disciplinary festival for New York with the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Irish Repertory Theatre Co, Irish American Historical Society