Alyse received most of her acting training at The Acting Studio Chicago, Green Shirt Studio, and The BGB Studio.  She recently co-created her own Improv and Sketch group Our Lake is an Ocean. Is apart Solictice, the expanded cast of Assigned Reading, was part of The Lookout, Improv from the inside out, ensemble at The Comedy Community Center, The Coin Drop Indy Film by Cho Collette. 

She is currently collaborating on a play, on the book for a new musical, various sketches, and also co-wrote and acted in Pocus Hocus, A Virgin's Revenge voted Best Theater Production by the Chicago Reader. Had the pleasure of playing the Grinch in You're a Mean One, working on a couple independen, and Malarkey's Comedy Sports Minor League Team.  She also played Josephine, JoJo, D'Angelo in the play Lady Balls written by Allison Fradkin for the Rockford Fringe Festival.

Alyse is currently with Promote Talent Agency, and is various voices in the radio play Emperor of the Moon with Braving the Bard; available on Spotify.  This last year she was a part of New Deal Creative Arts 2021 Monologue Challenge, and was in SENIOR MOMENTS which won Best Play in Triangle Rainbow Theatre and Riant Theatre's First LGBTQ+ Short Play Festival.

Pre-pandemic, she was in the film Date by Tao Liu which was selected for Lift-Off Sessions 2021, directed for the first time for the Moonlit 24-Hour Festival, shot a few commercials, and is working on a Pilot Series set to film Summer 2022. Pre-Quarantine she was in the staged reading of the play DARK PASSAGE, written by Rosemary FrisinoToohey, with the Italian American Theatre Company, shot an independent film, and took a class at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, UK.

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When she's not working she's around town auditioning, working on her dialects, and taking new interesting classes that Chicago and LA has to offers (in person/virtually).

She also loves to travel and was able to study abroad with Tim Kent at the Actors Studio at Pinewood Studios London, UK. Where she gained a new perspective when approaching her craft. 

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While long walks on the beach would not be included, unless Lake Michigan counts, her favorite literary character is Sherlock Holmes, she has private detective training,  and knows how to pick locks.