Allison Plamondon is a choreographer, director, performer, and teacher originally from Edmonton. Recent theatre choreography includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at YPT as well as White Christmas, Damn Yankees, and Holiday Inn all for the Shaw Festival. She also wrote, directed, and choreographed And I Never Stopped Dancing for Smile Theatre. New York highlights include: Goblin Market, off-Broadway at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Hills Are Alive! (NYMF), Someone To Belong To (NYC Fringe-Overall Excellence Award, Choreography), direction for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (14th St Y), and co-creation/direction/choreo for Memory Home (2019) and The Tchaikovsky Vignettes (2016), both in residence at HB Studio. Film/tv choreography credits include the Oscar-winning short film, Curfew (2013), Before I Disappear (IFC), Believe (NBC), and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick (asst choreo). Allison has shared original work at the Lincoln Center Library, Mark Morris, Gibney, fFIDA Dance Festival, Chen Dance Center, The Brick Theater and the inaugural RHI-Think initiative in Portugal. Most recently, Allison was a choreographer in residence through the National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space program. She is a member of the first all-female creative team to receive Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize (2021-22), for Orfeo Ed Euridice and was the apprentice director on Orphee+ with the Edmonton Opera.
As an actress, highlights include Trying at Cape May Stage, directed by Austin Pendleton (NJ Arts Top Ten Theatre, 2015), Suddenly, Last Summer (also directed by Austin Pendleton) and See Bob Run at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (Winner, Outstanding Performance in a Solo Show). Classical work includes Calpurnia and Artemidora in a highly physicalized production of Julius Caesar with Titan Theatre Company (Queens Theatre), directed by Jack Young (Artistic Director-Houston Shakespeare Festival) and Io in Theodora Skipitares’ Prometheus Within at La MaMa. Also at La MaMa, Allison performed in Ping Chong’s Angels of Swedenborg, opening the Tony-Award winning La MaMa’s 50th anniversary season and touring to the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, MA. Canadian Theatre favorites include Fire and Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival/National Arts Center and the world premiere of The Fox at Here For Now Theatre in Stratford.
An avid teacher, Allison is passionate about sharing movement with dancers of all ages and abilities. New York teaching highlights include AMDA, Queens Theater, Tom Todoroff Conservatory, Abrons Arts Center and Broadway Dance Center. She currently teaches tap at Sheridan College. Allison completed the Uta Hagen Teacher Training at HB Studio in 2016 and is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Trainer.
