Ally Poole

Ally Poole is from Denton, Texas. She recently completed an MFA in Advance Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Ally is a co-deviser and sound designer for the female-led theatre collective, Hot Cousin. She received a BFA in Theatre Arts with an Emphasis
in Acting and a Music Minor from Stephens College in 2012. Ally also completed a Shakespeare Intensive at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London in 2016.

Upon graduating from Stephens, she served as the Arts Administration Intern at the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY where she also made her professional acting debut as “Maribel Purdy” in Crooked. Ally has since enjoyed a career as an actor across theatre, film, musical theatre and
opera. Roles include “Soothsayer” in Coriolanus at Shakespeare Dallas, “Elizabeth” in In the Next Room or the vibrator play at Generic Theatre, “Rae” which won her a Best Support Actress Award for the short-film, Scraps and “Constance” in Iron, which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe.

She can currently be seen in The Show Must Go Online's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Henry VI Part II." She was also in Hot Cousin's Don't Talk to Strangers as Carl Sagan which has recently completed a run to rave reviews at VAULT Festival 2020. Ally made her London theatrical debut in Women of Troy at the Arcola Theatre. Most recently, Ally sound designed Scandal and Gallows Theatre's production of She Sells Sea Shells, which ran at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, A Tingle in the Plumbing: Four Stories of Love & Work for the 2019 Camden Fringe and Sarah Henley's Essence at VAULT Festival 2020.