Alice Wilkinson is an actress, writer, dancer, and cowgirl.

She grew up in the East Village in New York City and has lived in Massachusetts, Scotland, Ireland, Washington D.C, California, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Louisiana, and Texas. With over twenty years of dance experience, Alice brings a whimsical and elegant physicality to her characters, most recently playing the Nurse/Sister Laurence in the Texas Shakespeare Festival’s Fall 2023 Roadshow Tour, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and the Fool in Lear, also at the Texas Shakespeare Festival. This past spring she wrote, directed, and produced her play, To Stand in the Water, as part of LSU’s Lab Season, as well as the 20-minute solo show, Nightlatch, she devised for her thesis. Starting in February, Alice will be joining the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, playing Helena/Hippolyta/Bottom in the Spring 2024 Tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Alice has trained at LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, Shakespeare & Company, the Gaiety School of Acting, the Barrow Group, the Martha Graham School, and New York State Summer School of the Arts. Previous credits include Othello at Studio Baton Rouge, Hiya, Dolly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and BBC Radio Scotland, and Sweat at Swine Palace. She holds a B.A in Geography and Theatre from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A in Acting from Louisiana State University.

Alice is also a creative consultant and social media manager for Ranchlands, a land conservation organization that operates large-scale cattle and bison ranches in the American West. To read Ranchlands articles written by Alice, click here. To see her social media work, click here.

When she’s not in rehearsal, Alice can be found hiking, running, baking, reading poetry, or writing letters. She is fluent in Spanish and is based out West.

NEWS: Alice will be joining the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 Spring Tour! She will be playing Helena/Hippolyta/Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.