Theatre and opera include: Last Orders at the Dockside, Heartbreak House, The Risen People, Quietly, Perve, No Escape (Abbey Theatre Dublin); L’Arlesiana, Zazà, Così Fan Tutte (Opera Holland Park); Iolanta, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Royal Academy of Music); Thick as Thieves (Clean Break and Theatr Clwyd); The Lion in Winter (English Theatre Frankfurt); Tosca (Icelandic Opera); Gulliver’s Travels (YMT/Lyric Belfast); Sinners, Pentecost – Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Award 2015, Mixed Marriage, The Nativity & The Gingerbread Mix-Up (Lyric Belfast); Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris (Gate Theatre Dublin); The Nest (Young Vic/Lyric Belfast); Quietly (Abbey Theatre/Irish Rep /Public Theater); Fabric – Edinburgh Fringe First (Robin Rayner); Macbeth (Iford Arts); This Lime Tree Bower (Eoin Kilkenny); The Lighthouse (Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio); The Night Alive (DTF/Lyric Belfast); Be Infants in Evil (Druid); Summertime (Tinderbox); Before It Rains (Bristol Old Vic and Sherman Cymru); Pornography (Waking Exploits); Pigeon (Carpet Theatre); Ruben Guthrie (Iron Bark); How the World Began (Arcola Theatre); Hamlet (Second Age); The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan (ITM); Colleen Bawn (Project/Civic/Bedrock); Off Plan (RAW); Serious Money, Dying City (Rough Magic  Seeds); The Trials of Brother Jero (Samuel Beckett Theatre); Through a Film Darkly (Arambe); Ya Get Me (The Old Vic).

Alyson studied Architecture at University College Dublin and trained at Motley. She was a finalist in the Linbury Biennial Prize for stage design in 2007.