Allegra Fulton

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Allegra Fulton is an award-winning actress and one of Canada’s most celebrated artists. Her professional life began at a young age and has led to work with extraordinary people in Europe, the US and Canada, garnering numerous awards and extensive critical praise. Known to audiences for her portrayals of outsiders, iconoclasts, and dangerous women, Allegra has received glowing reviews in leading roles in major theatres across Canada and the US including the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and SoulPepper Theatre, The National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times, Soho Rep and A Noise Within, among many others. Her solo tour-de-force and haunting portrayal of Frida Kahlo in FRIDA K. by Gloria Montero, led to a Dora Award as well as multiple award nominations and international acclaim in Mexico City, Toronto, across Canada and in New York City, where the Village Voice hailed her work as “ One of the most extraordinary performances on the New York stage.” Ms. Fulton has also been nominated for ACTRA and Gemini awards for her work on screen and won a Genie award for The Hangman’s Bride in which she stars and shares a writing credit. In 2010 Ms. Fulton was called a “National Treasure” by the NOW Magazine.

Her directing work has been in tandem with her acting career, and credits include: ALADDIN AND HIS MAGICAL LAMP for Crows theatre, OH YA and THE DOCTOR IS IN, 2 plays by Ken Garnhum at the Tarragon Spring Arts fair, PORN SHOP and BOOB SOUP, by Emma Roberts at Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times and a third by Roberts, EXCELLENCE, ONTARIO, which was workshopped and performed for the On the Verge Festival at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. After playing leads in several of Michel Tremblay’s great works, she feels fortunate to have directed a production of his JOHNNY MANGANO AND HIS ASTONISHING DOGS which played in Toronto and then toured to St. John’s Fringe Festival. Another great honour was directing Yanna Macintosh in her very personal one woman play TRACE at the Toronto Fringe Festival which was “TOP PICK” of the Fringe Festival. Fulton recently returned from Europe, where she directed the Catalan premiere of LA LLISTA, (Jennifer Tremblay’s Governor General’s Award winning monologue that Fulton premiered in English as an actress in Toronto) at the prestigious Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, co-produced with La Brutal and starring the wonderful Spanish actress Laia Marull where it was universally acclaimed in the press and held over by popular demand.