Alison Matthews

Voice specialist in the Drama Department at the University of Alberta, Head of Coaching for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival (fifteen seasons), and voice/dialect coach for professional theatre companies across Canada.

Founding faculty member at the Arts Club Actor’s Intensive, and on faculty with the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program for five years teaching voice, text, and dialects. Interim Program Director of the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program in 2018.

Other academic instruction: Capilano University (Private Voice Instructor), Vancouver Island University (Public Speaking Instructor), and Canada’s National Voice Intensive at U.B.C. (Associate Faculty Member).                  

Voice and speech trainer for academics at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, with immigrant and refugee women at the Vancouver Chapter of The Shoe Project, with community leaders at Leadership Vancouver Island, and with environmental leaders at the Hollyhock Leadership Institute.

Voice Instructor with the Realwheels Acting Academy: a unique professional training program created for those who self-identify with the disability community. Speech Festival adjudication throughout British Columbia and Alberta (twenty years).    

Professional actor and voice-over artist (30 years), including theatre, feature films, network television, animation, audio book narration, commercial & elearning.

Master’s degree in Theatre (Voice Training focus) from the University of British Columbia, Associate Diploma in Drama & Speech from Trinity College London.

Founding board member with the National Voice Association.

Complete CV upon request.

  photo credits (left to right): Moonrider Productions (Arts Club Theatre Actor’s Intensive), Banff Centre for the Arts, Institute of Training & Occupational Learning (iTOL) Certification, Dirk Heydemann (Leadership Vancouver Island.