Alison M. Friedman

Contralto/Mezzo - Low C-High C alisonmfriedman.com (805) 279-9873 Height: 5' 7½" Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel NEW YORK/NATIONAL TOURS Introducing Harry Warren Alice Kahal Barbara Parisi Renegade: The Rock Musical (reading) Harley Hank Horton The News in Revue Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, et al Nancy Holson The Wizard of Oz Aunt Em/Good Witch Ann Neiman I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Woman 2/ Und. Woman 1 Jay Falzone The Water Coolers Judy Jay Falzone REGIONAL THEATRE Boomermania (Original Cast) Woman 3/Alison Debbie Kasper/Pat Sierchio Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley Devery Holmes FAME The Musical Ms. Greta Bell Tony Mansker The Sound of Music Elsa Schrader/Sister Sophia Jill Godfrey You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Lucy Van Pelt Graham Forden Cinderella Portia Jeannine Marquie FOOTLOOSE Rusty Jan Glasband The Diviners Luella Bennett Patrick Pearson 365 Days/365 Plays (West Coast Premiere) Diva James R. Taulli

EDUCATION: BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fullerton Voice Jerry Lanning, Shirley Callaway, Mitchell Hanlon, Paul Fagundes Classical / Broadway Vocal Training Sara Lazarus, Alex Rybeck Musical Theatre Audition Techniques Dance Dashaun Young, Darlene O'Cadiz Ballet Macarena Gandarillas Jazz Mara Davi, William F. Lett Tap Acting Svetlana Efremova-Reed Stanislavsky Eve Himmelheber Meisner, Stanislavsky Karen Kalensky Hagen, Strasberg

HONORS / AWARDS American College Theatre Festival National Finalist Kennedy Center, DC, 2007 American College Theatre Festival Meritorious Award - Acting Kennedy Center, DC, 2006 Spotlight Award Non-Classical Voice LA Music Center, 2002

SPECIAL SKILLS Playing guitar, piano, sight-reading, harmonies (all parts), knitting/crocheting, drivers license, valid passport Ethel Merman, Liza Minelli, Carol Channing impressions upon request