About Alison Kalmus
Alison Kalmus is the founder of AKT and Southern California Lyric Theater, directs, produces, writes, coaches, and performs for national and international theater. Artistic Director for “Shakespeare and Concerts in the Park” (Los Angeles County, City Sierra Madre, CV Arts Council). Her critically acclaimed classic and original plays, musicals and operas have been seen at Sierra Madre Playhouse, Knightsbridge Theatre , Nat’l American Shakespeare Co, and Hradek Kralove Filharmonie (CZ.). As a vocalist, Ms. Kalmus performs Jazz, Pop, Musical Theater and Opera , and has been a performing rep. member of many theatrical and operatic/music theater companies including Knightsbridge Theatre L.A. and American Shakespeare Company. A writer of sketch comedy, she also directed and performed as a resident member of The Ice House comic troupes Improv Inferno, and Tour de Farce.
| Work | Company | Title |
| The Christmas Ogre (World Premiere ‘12) | Southern California Lyric Theater | Producer/Director |
| Aesopera (World Prem. ’12) | Southern California Lyric Theater | Co-Producer/Director |
| Fairytales and Fantasy VI | Southern California Lyric Theater | Producer/Stage and Music Director |
| MaryMarie (World Premiere) | STAGES New Musical Theatre Festival | Director |
| Altadena Art Festival '11 | Theater Americana | Music/Stage Director |
| A Christmas Carol | Sierra Madre Playhouse | Director/Assoc. Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Fairytales and Fantasy V | City of Sierra Madre | Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Twelfth Night (Sierra Madre) | Southern California Lyric Theater | Artistic Dir./Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| La Boheme (Internat’l Prod. Czech Rep.) | Filharmonie Hradek Kralove | Assoc. Prod./Director/Performer |
| Fairytales and Fantasy IV | City of Sierra Madre | Director/Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Southern California Lyric Theater | Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Sunday Swing and Sing | SCLT Troubadours | Director/Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Narnia | Sierra Madre Playhouse | Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Once Upon A Shoe | Knightsbridge Theatre | Director |
| Fairytales and Fantasy III | City of Sierra Madre | Director/Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | CVAC & L.A. County Parks & Rec. | Assoc. Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| Nat’l Civic League’s All America City Award | City of Sierra Madre | Creative Director/Writer/Stage Dir. |
| A Christmas Carol Story | Sierra Madre Playhouse | Director/Assoc. Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| The Fantasticks | Nat’l American Shakespeare Co | Assistant Director/Sound |
| Fairytales and Fantasy II | City of Sierra Madre | Director/Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Southern California Lyric Theater | Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| The Sound of Music | Sierra Madre Playhouse | Assoc. Producer/Director/Assoc Music Dir. |
| Broadway, Bohemia and Britannia | SCLT Troubadours | Producer/Director/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Opera Pasadena | Director/Assoc. Producer |
| A Christmas Carol Story | Sierra Madre Playhouse | Director/Assoc. Producer/Assoc. Music Dir. |
| The Magic Flute | Opera Pasadena | Director |
| A Woman of No Importance | Knightsbridge Theatre | Stage Manager |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | American Shakespeare Co. | Asst. Director |
| Six Actors and a Dead Guy | Arroyo Repertory Theater | Writer/Director/Performer |
| Silence of The Hams | Sexson Theater | Writer/Performer |
| Murder & Mayhem at the Opera | Holly Street Theater | Writer/Performer |