Executive Director/Choreographer...
Alison Bretches

Alison Bretches has a varied background in the performing arts that includes performing, teaching, directing, choreographing, producing, and theatrical administration. For over fifteen years, Alison has been working with MET2 as a director, choreographer, and educator. In that time, she has choreographed such shows as Annie, The Music Man, The Wiz, Big River, and many others. Alison has also choreographed or assisted on the company's international programs with such shows as West Side Story in Moscow, Beauty and the Beast in Paris, Grease in Moscow, and Peter Pan in Sydney. Additional choreography credits include productions The Boys from Syracuse, Little Shop of Horrors, Once on this Island, A Chorus Line, and numerous revues. She has assisted on productions of Gypsy, Fame, and Tarnish, a new rock musical that premiered at the 2001 New York International Fringe Festival.

Alison graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Boston's Emerson College. In addition to performing and choreographing at the college, she worked as either a producer or assistant producer on such productions as Company, Fame, and Wonderful Town.  As president of Emerson’s Musical Theatre Society, she worked closely with the college administration and faculty to bring industry professionals (such as Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Jason Robert Brown, and Julie Taymor) to the campus. She is featured in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

As a performer, some of Alison’s favorite productions have been Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along, Celeste in Sondheim’s Saturday Night, the Homeless Lady in A New Brain, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in New Zealand, Young Sophie in Sophie: The Red Hot Mama at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts in Florida, the Old Lady in Candide, Mazeppa in Gypsy, Cassie in A Chorus Line, and the workshop of Placido Domingo, Jr.’s new musical, Vlad, A Vampire’s Love Story.  She also developed a one women show entitled Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries.  Additionally, she worked in New York as an assistant agent at a leading talent agency. A member of the Actors Equity Association, she is also a recipient of the Carol Burnett Award. 

Recently, Alison received her M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, one of only three such programs in the country.  While there, she choreographed productions of A New Brain and Honk! and was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, an international honors society.  She hopes to eventually publish her thesis, Musical Theatre Dance Styles:  Combining Scholarly and Practical Pedagogy.