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BIOGRAPHY Eunice Alleyne was born in Venezuela. She moved to Trinidad with her parents at the age of two. After graduating from St. Joseph's Convent High School, she worked in radio at the Government Broadcasting Unit, and then as Director of Information in the Office of the Prime Minister with Dr. Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. As a young woman in this position, she received a government scholarship to study Mass Communications at Boston University. All the while, during her working career in the public service, she was always involved in the theatre, something the nuns at St. Joseph Convent told her she should do because of her voice. Then, she did choral speaking in the Catholic Youth Organisation, and participated in prose and verse competitions. She became a founding member of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which was founded in 1959 by late Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. She has performed in numerous plays and toured extensively throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the US. In Europe she appeared in Derek Walcott's "The Odyssey" in Italy and in Spain, where she performed in Spanish. She is the recipient of the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT)'s 1998 Best Actress Cacique Award for "Remembrance", NDATT's 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award and the Emancipation Support Committee's Spirit of Emancipation Award for her contributions to local theatre. Her Film credits include Asha Lovelace's "Joebell and America", Horace Ove's "The Ghost of Hing King Estate", Horace Wilson's "Happy/Sad" and she was recently seen as Granny in Sally's Way (2015). Courtesy IMDB.com and Buzz.tt |
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BIOGRAPHY Eunice Alleyne was born in Venezuela. She moved to Trinidad with her parents at the age of two. After graduating from St. Joseph's Convent High School, she worked in radio at the Government Broadcasting Unit, and then as Director of Information in the Office of the Prime Minister with Dr. Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. As a young woman in this position, she received a government scholarship to study Mass Communications at Boston University. All the while, during her working career in the public service, she was always involved in the theatre, something the nuns at St. Joseph Convent told her she should do because of her voice. Then, she did choral speaking in the Catholic Youth Organisation, and participated in prose and verse competitions. She became a founding member of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which was founded in 1959 by late Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. She has performed in numerous plays and toured extensively throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the US. In Europe she appeared in Derek Walcott's "The Odyssey" in Italy and in Spain, where she performed in Spanish. She is the recipient of the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT)'s 1998 Best Actress Cacique Award for "Remembrance", NDATT's 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award and the Emancipation Support Committee's Spirit of Emancipation Award for her contributions to local theatre. Her Film credits include Asha Lovelace's "Joebell and America", Horace Ove's "The Ghost of Hing King Estate", Horace Wilson's "Happy/Sad" and she was recently seen as Granny in Sally's Way (2015). Courtesy IMDB.com and Buzz.tt |
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