Alison Matthews is a veteran speech and presentation coach based on the west coast of Canada.
Alison is Head of Coaching for Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, where she has coached over 40 productions since 2007. A founding faculty member at the Arts Club Actors Intensive Training Program, she was also on faculty for five years at the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta. She is a coach for The Shoe Project – a program to support immigrant and refugee women to share the stories of their journeys to Canada. She also offers public speaking training for the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, and facilitates for Leadership Vancouver Island.
With three decades of professional acting experience, Alison’s credits include roles on such acclaimed series as ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’, as well as featured roles in films such as Disney's ‘Snowdogs’, and ‘Final Destination 2’. She has been in demand as a professional voiceover artist for over twenty-five years.
She holds a M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of British Columbia, and an Associate Diploma in Drama & Speech from Trinity College London.
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Before working with Alison I knew virtual communication had limitations and now I know how I can make simple, yet significant adjustments to how I approach it. I appreciated the opportunity to practice via video and to receive relevant and encouraging feedback! I highly recommend working with Alison!
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