Alison Woolridge Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Alison Woolridge
Acting
Biography
Alison, a singer and actor, has worked in theatres across Canada, the United States and Ireland. She was with the Shaw Festival for six seasons and the Toronto company of Mamma Mia for three and a half years (Mirvish Productions). Alison has done a number of radio plays for the CBC and her screen work includes Street Legal, Republic of Doyle (CBC), PSI Factor (Atlantis), and the documentary Danny (National Film Board). She has originated several new Canadian musicals and recently directed Girl Meets Tuba and was last seen in Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland). Selected credits include Under Wraps, Oil and Water (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland); Tartuffe, Richard III (New World Theatre Project); Henry V, Merry Wives (Perchance Theatre); A Beautiful View (c2c Theatre); Educating Rita, Trafford Tanzi (Rising Tide Theatre); Makin’ Time With the Yanks, High Steel (RCA Theatre Company); The Winslow Boy, The Glorious 12th, 1949, Fiddler On The Roof (Neptune Theatre); John Bull’s Other Island, Hobson’s Choice, The Front Page, The Voice Of The Turtle, You Can’t Take It With You (Shaw Festival); Jacques Brel (Theatre Newfounland Labrador); Les Belles Soeurs, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar (Stephenville Festival); When We Were Singing (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre/Belfry Theatre). Upcoming: Alison will be joining the National Arts Centre’s 2015/16 National Ensemble in Ottawa.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Body & Bones
Diminished by grief, 18-year-old Tess (Kelly Van Der Burg) is moving through her life like a ghost. The one thing that comforts her is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe (Joel Thomas Hynes), a local legend who left home almost 20 years ago. Tess is stunned when she wakes up one day to find him in her kitchen, igniting a spark of life in her that grows out of control.
Malignant
A young women craving attention in her relationship, finds a lump in her breast.
Melody
Two young women find themselves in an impossible situation. With no one to turn to and against all odds, the pair take the road trip of their lives. Based on the story Melody by Lisa Moore, from her 2002 collection of short stories, Open.
The Existence of Magic
A New Age mother and her pragmatic daughter test the limits of their beliefs and their relationship on a quest to prove magic exists.
C Sharp and D Suspended
Margaret is a grandmother serving out a sentence in a minimum security prison. Daniel, her grandson, is a gifted classical guitar student who loves his nan very much. They've always had a deep connection, rooted in music. The day before his graduation, Margaret gets authorization to attend Daniel's concert ceremony. During the next 24 hours, they play music together, discuss the nature of family, and freedom, and get reacquainted after a long time apart. On the day of the ceremony, Daniel reveals a hidden intention - to help Margaret regain her freedom.
Little Orphans
The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a past secret. The complicated web of relationships between the sisters, their Aunt Maureen, their absent mother, and Kay’s young daughter Billie, is only illuminated by the wedding. Gwen’s attempts to get Kay to take responsibility for her daughter highlights her own abandonment of her ex, Tom, leading them all to a not-so-perfect storm of a reception.