Allison Plamondon is a Dora-nominated choreographer, director, teacher, and adjudicator originally from Edmonton. Most recently, Allison choreographed the Canadian premiere of Kimberly Akimbo at the Segal Centre in Montreal and Mirvish productions in Toronto. Other recent choreography includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Young People’s Theatre as well as White Christmas, Damn Yankees, and Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival. New York highlights include: Goblin Market, off-Broadway at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Hills Are Alive! (NYMF), Someone To Belong To (NYC Fringe-Overall Excellence Award, Choreography), direction for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (14th St Y), and co-creation/direction/choreo for Memory Home (2019) and The Tchaikovsky Vignettes (2016), both in residence at HB Studio. Film/tv choreography credits include the Oscar-winning short film, Curfew (2013), Before I Disappear (IFC), Believe (NBC), and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick (asst choreo).
Allison has shared original work at the Lincoln Center Library, Mark Morris, Gibney, fFIDA Dance Festival, Chen Dance Center, The Brick Theater and the inaugural RHI-Think initiative in Portugal. Most recently, Allison was a choreographer in residence through the National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space program. She is a member of the first all-female creative team to receive Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize (2021-22), for Orfeo Ed Euridice and was the apprentice director on Orphee+ with the Edmonton Opera. As a performer, Allison has been onstage at some of North America’s most exciting venues including Madison Square Garden, La MaMa, Symphony Space, the Charlottetown Festival, and the National Arts Centre.
An avid teacher, Allison is passionate about sharing movement with dancers of all ages and abilities. New York teaching highlights include AMDA, Queens Theater, Tom Todoroff Conservatory, Abrons Arts Center, and Broadway Dance Center. She currently teaches tap at Sheridan College. Allison completed the Uta Hagen Teacher Training at HB Studio in 2016 and is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Trainer. Allison has adjudicated and given master classes across North America. Highlights include Dance Power, Tap Quest, Alberta Dance Festival, Battlefords Dance Festival, and in the U.S. and Mexico with Sheer Elite International.
Will is a performer, award-winning writer/director, producer and co-founder of Red Imp; a film and TV production company based between Toronto and London, UK. He recently appeared as Zazu in Disney’s The Lion King in the Toronto Mirvish production and will soon recur as Logan in the upcoming MGM+ series TheWesties, starring JK Simmons.
Other credits include: Netflix’s Fubar opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mamma Mia! The Movie, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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Will spent many years as a professional dancer/choreographer, working in pop-music videos, live concerts and stage musicals around the world, including multiple shows for Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and more recently for Michael Jackson choreographer, Sean Cheesman, in Rock of Ages. He was classically trained from a young age in: Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Modern and Commercial, going on to train full-time at The Italia Conti Academy in London, where teachers included Derek Hough and Mark Ballas.
Alongside his dance career, Will has taught at prestigious colleges and master classes on both sides of the Atlantic.