Alison Matthews is Head of Coaching for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver, Canada, where she has coached over 40 productions since 2007, and a founding faculty member at the Arts Club Actor’s Intensive.
She was the Interim Program Manager for the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program, at Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and she has taught at Capilano University and Vancouver Island University. She coaches Presentation Skills for the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
For the past twenty years she has provided individual instruction and group workshops to actors, politicians, academics, and business professionals; she is a regular adjudicator for competitive speech festivals across Western Canada.
She has been in demand as a professional voice-over artist for over twenty-five years.