Alissa walked with thousands of
others at the Los Angeles 2008 Memory Walk. After singing at Circle
of Care: Leeza's Place 2nd annual party and seeing how wonderful of
an organization it was, Alissa decided to be a member of Leeza's
Team. She walked the 3 miles with Leeza Gibbons and the rest of the
team, hoping to raise awareness for Alzheimer's disease.
LOAF OF
BREAD
Alissa filmed a new movie Loaf of Bread!
She plays the supporting lead role of Allison, the captain of a
softball team. She shot the movie in Norco in Southern California in
the end of September.
"PARADE"
NOMINATED FOR BEST MUSICAL & CAST
Congratulations to Alissa who finished an
extremely successful run as one of the leads, Mary Phagan, in Parade
at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Palos Verdes, CA! Parade was
recently announced for being nominated for 6 StageSceneLA awards
including Best Musical & Best Ensemble Cast in a Musical! The
musical is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man
wrongly accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan in Georgia in
1913. Parade has a Tony award winning book (by Alfred Uhry) and
score (by Jason Robert Brown), and the Neighborhood Playhouse
performed the first Los Angeles fully staged version.
HBO
ALZHEIMERS DOCUMENTARY
Alissa is currently filming a part of a 4 segment
documentary about Alzheimer's Disease with HBO. In one of the
segments, Alissa is creating her own personal documentary about her
grandmother who has the disease. Check back for more
information about the project which will be shown on the HBO channel
with no subscription needed.
LEEZA'S
PLACE
Alissa recently sang at the 2nd Anniversary Party for
Leeza's Place, a non-profit organization to give support to
Alzheimer's patients and their families. She sang a variety of
songs from the 1930's through 1950's including "Somewhere Over the
Rainbow" and "Someone to Watch Over Me". After, she led a
sing-a-long with the Alzheimer's patients, caregivers,
volunteers and employees, and even actress Leeza Gibbons herself,
who started Leeza's Place. Check back soon for more info about
Alissa singing at Leeza's Place in the future. For more info about
Leeza's Place go to LeezasPlace.org .
STACY'S
MOM
Alissa recently wrapped filming the feature
film, Stacy's Mom, based on the hit song. Alissa has a supporting
role of one of Stacy's friends who goes to a dance with a
boy named Mark, and finds herself in a huge sticky
situation....Check out Stacy's Mom on IMDB
ALZHEIMER'S
AWARENESS
This year, Alissa has decided to do her part to help
the cause of finding a cure and helping those with Alzheimer's
disease, in honor of her grandmother who has the condition.
She has walked in the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk, sang in
the Alzheimer's Association The Night At Sardi's annual
fundraiser, was interviewed for a 4-part HBO documentary about
Alzheimer's disease, wrote to congress about increasing funding for
research, and will begin to work with Leeza's Place, a non-profit
organization for Alzheimer's patients and their families, by leading
sing-a-longs and helping out in the office. As part of the Miss
America's Outstanding Teen program (the little sister scholarship
pageant to Miss America), Alissa promotes Alzheimer's Awareness as
her personal platform. In the near future, she hopes to find a way
to increase awareness to teens via internet sites like MySpace and
Facebook. For information about Alzheimer's disease visit www.alz.org.
AMERICAN
GIRLS REVUE: CLOSED
On April 12, Alissa had her final performance in the
acclaimed American Girls Revue Los Angeles. She was the first
original cast and has worked on the production since November of
2005. After over 200 shows as Becky/Molly and Katie/Kit/Kirsten, the
show closed. At American Girl, she was not only in the first
original cast, but also served in the first and only set of Los
Angeles American Girl Ambassadors, was the lead in the American
Girl: Holiday Celebration show, was involved in numerous PR events,
was featured in an American Girls Theater Ad and was in the first
cast of second roles.
NIGHT AT
SARDI'S
On March 5 2008, Alissa performed in the "Night
at Sardi's" Alzheimer's disease benefit at the Beverly Hilton. This
year's theme was Bye Bye Birdie and Jason Alexander from
Seinfeld directed. Alissa performed with top A-list
celebrities and industry executives. She sang the
"Telephone Hour" from the show and is thrilled, especially since her
grandmother has Alzheimer's. Go to the Press section of Alissa's website for the
full articles.
CHARITY WORK
For the past year, Alissa has been extremely active in
charity work. She has already worked over 50 philanthropic hours in
her community, and hopes to reach between 75 and 100 hours by the
end of the school year. She has worked with county hospitals, senior
centers, children's hospitals, the Special Olympics, Adopt-An-Angel,
local schools, children's museums, animal shelters, and more hoping
to better the lives of those in her community.
CREME DE LA
KIDS
Congratulations to Alissa! Alissa won the Creme De La
Kids singing competition on September 15, 2007! To do this she went
through many qualifying rounds where there ended up being over 100
kids competing! At the final round the 25 most talented kids in
Southern California were sent to the LA County Fair to compete for
the grand prize: $500, a state of the art karaoke machine, 20
karaoke CDs, a professional microphone, a medal, a large trophy, and
more! She sang the song "Don't Rain On My Parade" from the musical
Funny Girl. Alissa was so excited when they finally called
her name as the winner. For more information go to KaraokeFest.com .Congrats to
Alissa!
THE C.A.R.E.
AWARDS
Congratulations to Alissa! After walking the red
carpet, Alissa received a 2007 C.A.R.E. (Child Actor Recognition
Event) award for her accomplishments in 2006.
Alissa modeling on the red carpet with other cast
members from the American Girls Revue
EPSON COMMERCIAL
Alissa filmed a commercial for Epson! She was on
the set all day, where she had so much fun. She wore a cute
pink jacket and brown corduroys in one scene, a football
jersey and jeans in the other, and PJ's in the final one! Alissa
even dyed her naturally blonde hair to brown. It was just a
rinse but it made her look more like the rest of the family she and
three other actors (who all were brunettes) were portraying.
Because of her commercial, Alissa is now a new member of The
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
MERVYNS
Here is Alissa in the insert ad for Mervyns in the
newspaper! Alissa is on the right modeling a white tank top and
off-white capris!
