Allison Brennan

Allison Brennan holds a B.A. with Honors in Theatre from the University of Ottawa. During her school time she became a member of the world's oldest diner theatre troupe (Eddy May) and performed in the NAC's production of The Odyssey (dir, Kim Selody). It was during The Odyssey that she met Michael Dobbin who encouraged her to audition for the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT)'s three-year MFA program specializing in classical acting training. In 2006 she moved to San Francisco where she joined the MFA class of 2009 at ACT and the three years immersed in a seventeen-person ensemble impacted her life enormously. This experience exposed her to the strengths and weakness, and creative processes and backgrounds of a perfect cross section of actors from all over the United States. She happily spent a summer as a company member at California Shakespeare Theatre, landing a role in Shakespeare's Pericles (dir. Joel Sass), as well as playing Lady Basildon in Oscar Wildes' An Ideal Husband (di