Alison Pollard

UK Resident Director


Alison is currently Assistant Director on the Gershwin musical My One And Only (Piccadilly Theatre, London), and she has recently choreographed several episodes of Eastenders (BBC1).

WORK AS RESIDENT DIRECTOR: Rent (Prince of Wales Theatre, London & UK tour); Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre, London); Showboat (Prince Edward Theatre, London); Tommy (Shaftesbury Theatre, London and U.K. tour); Ain't Misbehavin' (Lyric, London); The New Rocky Horror Show (West End & UK Tour, and European Tour.) Assistant Director on Barnum (UK tour). She was also ASSOCIATE UK DIRECTOR on Disney's Beauty And The Beast (Dominion Theatre, London).

WORK AS DIRECTOR: Robin Hood And The Babes In The Wood (Palace Theatre, Mansfield); Snow White, (The Swan, High Wycombe).

WORK AS CHOREOGRAPHER: Eastenders;High Spirits; After The Fair; Me And My Girl; Aspects Of Love; Boyband; Carousel; Bouncers.

AS A PERFORMER: Covered/ played Fantine in Les Misérables (Palace, London); covered/played Sally Smith in Me And My Girl (Adelphi, London); Mrs. Adams in Annie Get Your Gun (Prince of Wales, London); Miss Freeman in Meet The Boys (Players, London); Zip inJust One World (Cochrane, London); Francine in Pal Joey (Bristol Old Vic); Magenta/Assistant Choreographer in The Rocky Horror Show (Casino De Paris Theatre, Paris and European Tour); Bonnie in Freddies (Old Fire Station, Oxford); featured singer/dancer in Magic Of The Musicals (U.K. Tour, Canadian/American Tour and Norway); Principal Girl in Aladdin (Civic, Guildford and Kenneth More, Ilford); Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Brighton); and Dick Whittington (Alexandra, Birmingham).

TELEVISION AND RADIO: Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Cconcert (Royal Albert Hall); Magic Of The Musicals (BBC1); 'See Hear' (BBC2); 'Ad Lib' (BBC Radio 4).

FILM: Assisted Director/Choreographer Gillian Gregory on the film I Love You Love Me Love (Ugly Bug Productions) which stars Mark Addy.
She is an assessor for the Trinity College London examination board. Alison is married to actor Jon Emmanuel, and their favourite production was the recent birth of their son, Jack.

 

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