Alison is from Bandon, Co. Cork. She earned her undergraduate degree at University College Cork, and went on to train in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where she is now an awarded Associate.

Alison was a finalist for the Inaugural Sondheim Festival bursary 2023 and a prize winner in the Lotte Lenya International Singing Competition.

Alison recently returned to the cast of Oliver Cromwell Is Really Very Sorry as the show tours Ireland, following her Best Performer nomination for the same role at Dublin Fringe Festival. 

Other credits include: Broadway Proms at Cork Opera House, The Magician's Elephant with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Malory Towers directed by Emma Rice and the 50th Anniversary Tour of Hair. She also performed in the Tempest with the RSC and Operas including, Les Liaisons Dangereuse and Tannhaüser.

Alison is also a comedian and cabaret performer and has performed at Edinburgh Fringe; Melbourne International Comedy Festival and some of the top cabaret venues in the West End.