Alison Matthews

Alison Matthews is a Canadian actor, voice artist, and coach. She is a founding faculty member of the Arts Club Actor's Intensive Training Program and has also taught at the Citadel Banff Professional Theatre Program. Matthews serves as the Head of Coaching for Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, where she has coached over 40 productions since 2007. Additionally, she works as a voice and speech trainer at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Vancouver Chapter of The Shoe Project, and Leadership Vancouver Island. Matthews has been an adjudicator for competitive speech festivals in Western Canada for the past twenty years. She has appeared in various film and television productions, including The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Disney's Snow Dogs, and Final Destination 2, and has lent her voice to several anime projects.