Director / Performer / Creative Producer / Designer
Alice began her career at the age of nine in a production of Alice in Wonderland playing the dormouse. Since then she has worked across a variety of disciplines developing her career as an actor, comedian, producer, singer, costume designer, and these days primarily as a director.
Her directorial credits include Don DeLillo's Love Lies Bleeding with Redstitch Actor's Theatre, Catalpa with ITCH Productions, 10,000 Cigarettes with MWT, Pawn Shop (le poulet terrible), Alzheimers the Musical for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – nominated for a Golden Gibbo Award, the noir classic Prisoner of Love, Kill Bob and Limited Sedition with Wendy Little – both for Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Trial of Adolf Eichmann at La Mama, Percy Shelley's The Cenci for Perth's Hayman Theatre, I've Got a Bug (le poulet terrible) on the Adelaide Fringe as well as Much Ado About Nothing for Essential Theatre, Autogeddon on the Melbourne Fringe and Tartuffe with le poulet terrible.
For three years she was a member of The Sheryls which played to packed houses on the Australian festival circuit and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Her career as a performer also encompasses TV guest roles and many plays. As a Designer she has worked on programmes for Channel 9 and Channel 7 including Big Bite, video clips and commercials, little films, big musicals and many theatre and fashion projects.
'Alice Bishop's direction throws the text into sharp focus'
The Age Review by Martin Ball - July 08
'a rewarding production'
John Bailey - Sunday Age Magazine - August 08
'Bishop's direction uncovers subtleties that aren't
present in the script'
MCV Review - July 08
'Catalpa' - ITCH Productions
'fine moments......exceptional detail from Director Alice Bishop'
The Age Review by Martin Ball - May 08
'Alice Bishop did a wonderful job......staging it seamlessly'
Australian Stage Online Review by Paul Kooperman - May 08
'......restrained and effective direction' / 'Refreshing theatre in Melbourne is a rare bird these days but this production of Catalpa is just that.'
Arts Hub Review by Chris Thorpe - May 08
'Alzheimers the Musical'
'......the audience were in stitches and needed an ambulance'
The Age - last laugh April 07
'......a hilarious - if terrifying - venture into old age.'
The Age - April 07
Nominated for the Golden Gibbo Award – Melbourne Int. Comedy Festival 07
'Autogeddon is an image packed play/musical, delivered to a mesmerised and often quite stunned audience by the able hands of director Alice Bishop. Bishop's vice-gripped vision is a maze of vivid re-creations of drag races and sexy auto ads......production values and execution very high'
Aussie Theatre website - Melbourne Fringe 06
'Prisoner of Love'
'Seeing Prisoner of Love is a bit like finding a previously undiscovered noir classic. Director Alice Bishop has a solid critical - and aesthetic - understanding of the oeuvre.'
Cameron Woodhouse - The Age - February 06
'The Cenci'
'Great to see something of such vibrant quality......a blend of Marilyn Manson expletives and Shakespearean tragedy.'
Theatre Australia website - 5 stars - October 03
'The Sheryls'
'This is a very lively and enjoyable show. They're excellent musically and there's a lot of good old rough fun in the style of the old Pram Factory.'
Geoffrey Milne 774 ABC - April 99
info@alicebishop.com.au