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 Chernick Alison Chernick Alison Chernick is a New York based writer/director and filmmaker. Chernick's first documentary was on contemporary artist Jeff Koons titled, "The Jeff Koons Show" (2005). Her second feature-length documentary on artist Matthew Barney, titled "Matthew Barney No Restraint", premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and was acquired for theatrical distribution by IFC and The Weinstein Company. She founded the production company Voyeur Films in 2006. "Diagram of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein" was commissioned by the Tate Modern for its 2013 exhibition "Lichtenstein: A Retrospective". "The Artist is Absent", a short film on designer/artist Martin Margiela, premiered