Alison Deon, author portrait
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Alison Deon

Alison Deon is a Toronto-based actor and voiceover artist. Narration titles for Penguin Random House include The Migration by Helen Marshall, A Bit Much by Sarah Jackson and We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper. She has also directed audiobooks for PRHC, including Desperada by Sofia Mostaghimi, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline and A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter.

On television, she has appeared on The Boys (Amazon Prime), What We Do in the Shadows (FX), Fellow Travelers (Showtime), Late Bloomer (Crave), Reign (CW), and in many US and Canadian national commercials.

Stage credits include the Stratford Festival, Mirvish Productions, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Magnus Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Western Canada Theatre and Gateway Theatre.

Alison has also worked as a Guest Artist for the Stratford Festival, Shakespeare in Action, the National Theatre School DramaFest, and George Brown College’s Theatre and Acting for Media programs.

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