After training at the London School of Contemporary Dance, Alison Limerick performed with Ballet Metropolis and MAAS Movers, both small, contemporary dance companies. Whilst continuing to dance she also began singing, firstly for London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Phoenix Dance but quickly moving on to commercial sessions for recording artists, including the Style Council, Pete Murphy and This Mortal Coil.

For a time Ms Limerick worked as a singer for hire, performing in various theatre productions including Wayne Sleep’s Dash, with whom she toured briefly. She began her musical theatre career in “Labelled With Love” – a show inspired by the music of Squeeze – at the Albany Empire, London. She went on to join the resident company there “The Combination”, appearing in a number of productions including a modern reworking of the “Beggars Opera” in which she played Polly, alongside Eamonn Walker, Didi Hopkins and  Jimmi Harkishin.

In a South Bank Show version of Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas”, she took the role of First Witch. Other musicals include: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat”at the Heymarket, Leicester: “King” a tribute to Dr Martin Luther Kingat the Prince Edward Theatre, London, appearing as Rosa Parks (a character for which she had to don a large, grey wig and paint age lines on a face that looked a trifle young to carry the weight of the role). In “Starlight Express” at the Apollo Victoria, London she was at first a swing understudy (without a role of her own). She later took the role of  Belle. He also understudied the lead (Pearl) and the role of Electra (and was the first woman ever to perform as Electra, which till then was exclusively a male role).

In the touring production of “Smokey Joe’s Café” she was ‘girl with the boa’ and in “The Pajama Game” she appeared as Gladys. That production ran firstly at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre before moving to the Princess Theatre, Toronto, Canada, closing at the Victoria Palace, London. Ms Limerick also appeared in “Collusion”, a British movie, as “the jazz singer”. She appeared in “A Cavalcade Of Coward” at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and has performed in various cabaret venues in England and scotland with Charlotte Bicknell and Malinda Hughes, the trio being the vocalists in Fabulous Darling, an ensemble whose musical director was David Harrod. ‘Breakeven‘ Perfomed at the Pizza On The Park 2010 with Fabulous Darling; David Harrod on piano.

Juggling the many disciplines and demands of a theatre, cabaret and commercial recording career is not a task for the feint-hearted but each skill and experience has helped to shape Alison Limerick into a well rounded and versatile writer and performer.