Ali Wilson
(she/her)
Ali moved to Glasgow in 2024 after 11 years training and working in Manchester. She holds a BA + MA from University of Salford in Contemporary Performance Practice, where her artistic practice in devising and comedy began. She has since collaborated and performed with artists across the UK and Europe, such as idontloveyouanymore, Art with Heart, Quarantine, Amy Lawrence and more. She has presented devised and stand up performance work across England, including performing at Battersea Arts Centre, Contact, HOME and Royal Exchange Theatre, where she was Supported Artist (2019/2020). She received the Liam Byrne award from University of Salford in 2022.
Alongside devising and performing, Ali has an established dramaturgy, facilitation and producing practice. She joined Contact's young producer's scheme Re:Con in 2017 and went on to produce community-led creative projects across Manchester and North West England, as well as staged, digital and touring projects. She joined Factory International's young people's advisory board in 2020 and soon after join Contact's Board of Trustees, where she served as Vice Chair and Interim Chair of the Board until the end of her tenure. In 2020 she founded self-produced project Every Brain which sought to advocate for better understanding and promotion of neurodiversity within the UK's cultural sector. Ali joins Shaper/Caper after eight months producing SQIFF in central Glasgow, promoting queer film and supporting queer filmmakers across Scotland.
Ali speaks advanced German skills thanks to several periods of living and working in Germany, alongside beginner's (!) Spanish and Dutch. Her professional interests are focussed on enabling and supporting more people to have access into cultural activity. Alongside working, Ali is also currently a member of RCS's Performance Company and studying Counselling Theory for Practice: An Introduction at Glasgow Clyde College.
Having grown up attending her stepmum's dance school classes four times a week, Ali is excited to return to the world of dance theatre!
#IWannaDanceWithSomebody
Who would Ali like to dance with?
“The cast of a Jan Martens' Dog Days Are Over (2014)”