Alison Steadman Plessey, an electronics firm. Steadman was educated at Childwall Valley High School for Girls, a state grammar school in the Liverpool suburb of Childwall, followed by East 15 Acting School, to which she secured a place in the autumn of 1966 and where she met Mike Leigh during her second year. Having left the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, Steadman worked in various regional repertory theatres, starting at Lincoln in 1968, where her first role was that of the seductive schoolgirl Sandy in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". She created the role of the monstrous Beverly in
Alison Gates After her fourth week at "SNL", Gates was noted for her sketch "Teacher Fell Down", which Alison Herman of "The Ringer" called "a gloriously weird bit from the Jonah Hill episode centering on McKinnon's drama queen of a driver's ed instructor". Alison Gates Alison Gates (born 1988 or 1989) is an American comedy writer and actress who is currently a staff writer for "Saturday Night Live". She previously lived in Chicago and worked with the Second City's touring company and an all-female iO Theater troupe. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Gates said she started doing improvisational theatre in high school,