Alison Telfer McDonald
Actor
Alison is a Brisbane-based Actor and Performing Arts Teacher.
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Alison is a Dancer and Theatre actor with extensive stage experience. Passionate about Australian works, Alison has a sharp eye for human behaviour and a deep interest in creating multifaceted characters.
Off stage, Alison is a Performing Arts Teacher at a Special School. She uses movement, music, story and play to spark joy, courage, confidence and life-long learning. Some of Alison’s Theatre highlights have included ‘The Unspoken Word is Joe’, ‘Cosi’, ‘X-Stacy’, ‘Dear Mrs Edmondson’, ‘Away’, ‘Bazaar and Rummage’, ‘Dinkum Assorted’.
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Each character is a spot-on caricature, while still being fondly relatable. We have the attention seeking director who shows great friendship and empathy towards poor trainwreck Zoey, in the “Woman Who Reads the Stage Directions” (Alison Telfer McDonald).
Julia Mesrobian - The Drama Merchant | Read Full Review
As the frantic, worried, hollowed out Anne, Alison Telfer-McDonald is frankly a revelation, and her performance is easily the best thing about this production.
Shane Webb - Theatre Haus | Read Full Review
Telfer-McDonald is another standout in her realisation of many of the play’s gripping moments of real emotional intensity. So poignant is her at-end explanation of the routines she has created to get through her grief as a mother, that a number of audience members are seen to be wiping away tears.
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains Brisbane | Read Full Review
As Lewis’s mother, Alison Telfer McDonald captured the period and her plight in a housing commission suburb on Melbourne’s outskirts. Elodie Boal (playing Lewis’s sister and a one-armed Dutch immigrant) showed great versatility.
Louis Nowra - Stage Whispers Brisbane | Read Full Review
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Past Ad Astra Productions
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THEATRE CREDITS
2023 - ‘A Stretching Moment’ Ash Dighton Short Film. Actor-regular customer in café
2021 - ‘The Unspoken Word is Joe’ The Reaction Theory. Actor -woman who reads the stage directions
2020 - ‘Cosi’ That Production Company and Miraball Productions. Actor - Ruth
2019 - ‘X-Stacy’. Miraball Productions. Actor - Anne
2012 - ‘Summer of the Aliens’. Brisbane Arts Theatre. Actor - Norma
2010 - ‘Dear Mrs Edmondson’. La Boite Theatre Fast Festival. Actor - Maude
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Queensland University of Technology- Acting Short Courses (2002-2003)
Graduate Diploma of Education Specialisation of Special Education. USQ 2019
Bachelor of Teaching (Primary and Special Needs). Griffith University 1991
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Gold Palm Theatre Award 2019 (Best Actress in a Supporting Role. X-Stacy- Ann)
Gold Palm Theatre Award 2019 (Best Community Theatre Production. X-Stacy) -
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