Alison Mead is an experienced actress and has a wide range of experience in comedy and drama, film, television and theatre. She is at home in contemporary as well as classical stage roles and is adept at dialect work including American, Norfolk and West Country which is her native accent.
Her contemporary stage appearances include the name part in Anna Weiss by Mike Cullum, the role of Liz in Party Time by Harold Pinter. Two American plays provided great contrasting roles for Alison at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. These are Mrs Hawkins in The Wreck on the 5-25 by Arthur Miller and the title role in Naomi in the Living Room by Christopher Durang.
Two new plays : Forza Galileo at Theatro Technis in which she played Joan Littlewood and Laura Ford in The House on the Other Shore performed at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley in 2005 .
Classical work includes Gertrude in Hamlet (National Tour) Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Abbess in “Comedy of Errors” for Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. And “Murder in the Cathedral” by T.S. Eliot performed at the Actors Church in Covent Garden, London. On the lighter side, she has played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Film credits include two films for Graham Watts: Diane in “Prey for the Future” and
“To the Manor Drawn”. Both can be viewed at www.mediakiller.co.uk/film
The lead
role of Pamela Plagely in “Yam” (Amazon Films) was presented at the National Film
Theatre and is a feature length film available at www.amazon.co.uk. Her most recent
film “Mummy’s Boy” for OTT films was written and directed by Harry Clegg. Another
American role for a TV pilot was “Affairs of the Heart” in which she played Diane
Livinston.
Recent television credits include appearances as Peggy Haywood in “Casualty”,
directed by Robin del Maestro and the Magistrate’s Clerk with Emily Joyce in an episode
of “Wycliffe”, starring Jack Shepherd and directed by Michael Brayshaw.
Alison has
also worked at the Young Vic with Wendy Toye; for Bill Kenwright Ltd with Peter Howell
and for Yorkshire Television with Richard Handford, John Frankau and Mike Newell.
She has toured nationally in open air productions and Number One venues.
Alison’s voice over work includes a Finance commercial for Gloss Media; Mrs Tober in Eating Spiders (animation) and a children’s Christmas story for Promus productions.
Directing credits include “The Untold Story” for the National Trust a project for young people at the Churchill Theatre Bromley entitled Island Utopias; Epsom Downs at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley; Pajama Game at the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks and associate director for Impulse Theatre on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alison Mead has completed two written theatre projects. The story of Ellen Terry, the famous Victorian Actress was performed at Smallhythe, Kent (Terry’s former home) in July 2007 and at the Rosemary Branch, Islington in November. “The End of the Affair” was given a public reading at Theatro Technis in November 2006. Both are being re-drafted for further performances in the near future.
Further information on these projects and Alison’s current teaching programme can be found on the training website which is linked back to this site
