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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.

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The Show Must Go Online Announces Livestreamed Reading of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN for Season Finale


OneOff Award and two-time OnComm award-winning The Show Must Go Online have announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The production is the Season Finale of The Show Must Go Online before entering a chrysalis period.

Full Cast Announced for DIDO QUEEN OF CARTHAGE Presented by The Show Must Go Online


The Show Must Go Online, today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe. This is the second instalment in their Month of Marlowe series, preceded by Edward II (9 June) and followed by Doctor Faustus (23 June) and Marlowe Lives Cabaret (30 June).  

The Show Must Go Online Announce Full Cast For Livestreamed Reading Of HENRY VIII


Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

The Show Must Go Online Announce All Global Majority Cast For Livestreamed Reading Of ANTONY & CLEOPATRA


Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the all global majority cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra.

The Show Must Go Online Announces Full Cast For ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL


Two-time OnComm award-winning The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, begin the final ten performances of the series, having run for 26 consecutive weeks, with over 185,000 views from 60 countries so far.

The Show Must Go Online Announces Full Cast for THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR


The Show Must Go Online today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Jack Baldwin, Lynsey Beauchamp and More to Star in THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE Livestream of HENRY VI Part II


The Show Must Go Online today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part II. Rob Myles directs Jack Baldwin (Duke of Suffolk), Lynsey Beauchamp (Duke of Gloucester), Will Block (King Henry VI), Alix Dunmore (Earl of Warwick) and more.

BWW Review: DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS, VAULT Festival


When the Voyager spacecrafts were launched in 1977, they contained two golden records that were meant to reproduce sounds and noises coming from Earth so that alien life could learn about us.

BWW Review: ESSENCE, VAULT Festival


Elyot is a peculiar man. He lives ruled by an eccentric routine, learning new words, and listening to Beethoven and pop tunes from which he's removed all the sung parts. When Laquaya breaks into his house in Peckham, everything changes. His strict pattern blows up as she violently barges into his life.

Kitchen Theatre Company Begins AND, LATELY... Performances, 5/8


Age! Job! Retirement! Joy! These topics and more are whirling through the mind of Kitchen Theatre Company Artistic Director Rachel Lampert. What better way to figure them out than with a performance piece? AND, LATELY... is a piece d'occasion, a backstage brainstorm about running a theater and checking in with the rest of the world that uses music, movement and text to deliver the story. This is a limited run, with performances May 8th through 19th only.

Photo Flash: First Look at Kitchen Theatre's CROOKED


The Kitchen Theatre's 22nd Season continues with Catherine Trieschmann's poignant and true-to-life coming of age story Crooked, in its Central New York premiere. Crooked runs from February 27 through March 17, with preview performances February 27 and 28 and March 1. Opening Night is March 2, and the closing performance is on March 17. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below!

The Kitchen Theatre's 22nd Season Continues With CROOKED, Beginning 2/27


The Kitchen Theatre's 22nd Season continues with Catherine Trieschmann's poignant and true-to-life coming of age story Crooked, in its Central New York premiere. Crooked runs from February 27 through March 17, with preview performances February 27 and 28 and March 1. Opening Night is March 2, and the closing performance is on March 17.

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