Alice Wilkinson is an actor, director, writer, dancer, and teaching artist based in Wyoming. She is interested in the connections between landscape, imagination, and poetry.

She has worked professionally with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Wyoming Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, Great Plains Theater Festival, Swine Palace Theater, BBC Radio Scotland, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has performed in libraries, National Parks, schools, and detention centers. As a dancer, Alice has worked with the La MaMa Moves! Festival, NYU Skirball Center, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and the American College Dance Festival. Alice has also taught acting and movement courses at the undergraduate level at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, she directed undergraduate productions, wrote an ecocritical play that premiered in the Lab Season, and devised a 30-minute solo show as part of her thesis, which was reprised at the Fertile Ground Festival, in Portland, OR. She is currently developing the curriculum for an after school theater program on the Wind River Reservation, in Fort Washakie, Wyoming.

All of Alice’s theatrical work is heavily influenced by her dance background and connection to vast landscapes. She trained as a ballet and modern dancer for over 20 years, studying at LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, the Martha Graham School, David Dorfman, Alvin Ailey, East Village Dance Project, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Peridance Capezio Center, and the New York State Summer School of the Arts. Alice has additional training in heightened text, clowning, and Linklater voicework from Shakespeare & Company and the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. She is a certified Seven Pillars Acting Instructor, an acting technique based upon Meisner and Stanislavsky’s teachings. She has over ten years of experience in devised physical theater performance, most notably with Tectonic Theater Project in their “Moment Work Institute,” which explores the theatrical elements of the stage through rigorous research, experimentation, and collaboration.

Alice is also a freelance writer for Ranchlands, an organization dedicated to the conservation of rangelands in the American West. Alice’s writing is shaped by her time spent living and working in remote places, from the Chico Basin Ranch, in Colorado (90,000 acres) to Sieben Livestock Company, in Montana (40,000 acres). She writes about art, history, and culture for their quarterly journal.

Alice’s research interests lie in reimagining classical texts through a physical theater lens, the relationship between theater and dance, and devised work. She is also interested in how different cultural and geographical locations - a library, a prison, the prairie - challenge conventional ideas of performance, encourage civic engagement, and challenge the imagination. 

Alice holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Louisiana State University and a B.A. in Geography and Theatre from Mount Holyoke College, with additional training from the University of St. Andrews, the Gaiety School of Acting, the Barrow Group, LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and the United Nations International School.