Alison Steadman Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party", which she reprised with the original cast on television. She won an Olivier Award for "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice", and also appeared in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Entertaining Mr Sloane", "Hotel Paradiso", and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, the Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Everyman Liverpool and the National Theatre. She starred as Elmire in the 1983 RSC production of Molière's "Tartuffe", which was adapted for BBC television. In 2010, Steadman was cast as Madame Arcati in a revival of
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,