CHRISTINA ALLISON

Christina Allison’s earliest training and experience was as an actress. She attended the Banif School of Performing Arts, and has an A.C.T.M. from Toronto Conservatory of Music. She received two Rockefeller grants to study voice in Munich , and Rome , which quickly lead to contracts to sing leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe : Tosca, Madam a Butterfly, Lady Macbeth, Donna Elvira with Joan Sutherland, are among her many roles.

She is active on T.V. and on the concert stage. Recent appearances locally have been in The Cripple of lnnishmann, and A Doll’s House at the Ensemble, Speaking of Stories at the Lobero and Holiday Chestnuts. She has also appeared locally as Myrtle in Mornings at Seven, Her Ladyship in The Dresser, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, (Garvin Theatre), and at the Lobero in American Cantata. Recently seen as Ganna Walska in The Would Be Diva and as Isadora Duncan in ISADORA! both co-authored with Elaine Kendall, at Center Stage.. Her one-woman show Amazin Gracie, Lancashire Lass played Santa Barbara , New York and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival., and her play on the life of Marie Lloyd, Queen of The Music Halls was produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her fourth short story is published in a recent anthology, A Community of Voices. She was a soloist with the Santa Barbara Symphony, New Year’s Eve Concert 2002.

Her newest play Wild Irish Women was selected as one of three new plays to be presented at Ensemble’s Play Readings, May, 2002 and was read at the New York Headquarters of the American Irish Historical Society by members of the Irish Repertory Theater to great success on January 15th, 2003. Christina is a member of AGMA, Equity and The Dramatists Guild of America.  

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