I apologise for the delay in getting these up. Alison attended the Meet & Greet with the cast of The Miracle Worker on the 25th. The play starts previews on February 12th.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World will see a US release on August 13th.

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World will be released August 27th, 2010 in the UK. No other release dates have been announced.

From Playbill:
Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin, of “Little Miss Sunshine,” will play Helen Keller, and Tony Award nominee Alison Pill, of The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Off-Broadway’s Blackbird, will play Annie Sullivan in Broadway’s new production of The Miracle Worker.

Producer David Richenthal announced the casting and theatre on Oct. 28. Kate Whoriskey (Ruined) will direct the William Gibson play, to begin an in-the-round staging at Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street) on Feb. 12, 2010, followed by an opening night of March 3 2010.

Additional casting will be announced shortly.

“Set in the South in the 1880s, The Miracle Worker tells the story of real-life Medal of Freedom winner Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, and the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate with the world, Annie Sullivan,” according to production notes.

Young film star Breslin will make her Broadway debut in the role of Helen Keller. She appeared at age five in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 film, “Signs,” and received an Academy Award nomination for her critically-acclaimed title role performance in the film comedy “Little Miss Sunshine,” for which she was Oscar-nominated in the Supporting Actress category. Breslin’s other film credits include “Raising Helen,” “No Reservations,” “Definitely Maybe,” “Nim’s Island,” “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” “My Sister’s Keeper” and the current release “Zombieland.”

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Pill returns to the stage following starring on Broadway in Mauritius and in the Off-Broadway hits reasons to be pretty and Blackbird, for which she received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Award nominations. She was nominated for a Tony Award as Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. She recently appeared in the feature film “Milk,” and in the HBO series, “In Treatment.”

Whoriskey most recently staged the acclaimed and much-extended world premiere of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined at the Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. She directed the Goodman’s Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo and the world premiere of Drowning Crow, plus Antigone at South Coast Repertory, where she also directed the world premiere of Nottage’s Intimate Apparel. She staged the world premiere of Nottage’s Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons.

Richenthal (Death of a Salesman, Long Days Journey Into Night, The Crucible and I Am My Own Wife) is the lead producer of Broadway’s current revival of Finian’s Rainbow.

The inspiring 1959 play based on the young life of the internationally-known Keller famously starred Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, on stage and film. This is being billed as the 50th anniversary production of the play.

In 2003, Fran and Barry Weissler launched a Broadway-aimed Miracle Worker in North Carolina. Oscar winner Hilary Swank starred. The producers opted to close the show after its Charlotte run.

The Miracle Worker, which still shocks modern audiences for the physicality and violence from the actresses playing Helen and Annie, won six Tony Awards, including one for Best Play in 1960. Anne Bancroft (who won the Best Actress Tony) and Patty Duke were the original stars, and repeated their roles on film.

Bancroft and Duke both won Oscars for their performances. Duke later played Annie in a TV film of the work, with Melissa Gilbert as Helen. A theatrical sequel, Monday After the Miracle, showed Helen and Annie as adults, dealing with very different issues.

Playwright William Gibson died in 2008. Gibson’s Miracle Worker was originally presented as a TV drama for “Playhouse 90.” His plays include Two for the Seesaw, A Cry of Players, Golda, The Butterfingers Angel, Handy Dandy and Goodly Creatures. He is the author of a novel, “The Cobweb,” as well as the musical version of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. His books include “The Seesaw Log,” “A Mass for the Dead,” “A Season in Heaven” and a volume of poetry entitled “Winter Crook,” plus “Shakespeare’s Game,” a critical study.

For more information, visit www.miracleworkeronbroadway.com.

Alison will be replacing Ellen Page in “Jack & Diane”.

Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions

From Edgar Wright Here:

From NY Times, by Deborah Sontag:

AS girls Alison Pill, the actor, and Sarah Treem, the playwright, never stuttered when adults asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up.

Ms. Pill hired an agent at 10 after a successful gig reading textbooks on tape and quickly found steady work on American and Canadian television in Toronto, her hometown. Ms. Treem was 12 when her first play — written in rhyming couplets with the refrain “Who am I going to sit with at lunch?” — won a statewide young playwrights contest and was staged in Connecticut.

From early on, the two precocious girls impressed adults with their unwavering drive until suddenly, disconcertingly, they were adults themselves, wondering: Were they really good at what they did, or had they just been good for their age? Would they be accepted by their professional mentors as peers? Did their achievements make them happy?

Last winter, when Ms. Pill, 23, and Ms. Treem, then 28, were both grappling with such questions, they came together and bonded fiercely on the set of “In Treatment,” the HBO therapy drama starring Gabriel Byrne. They had become friendly the summer before at the Sundance Institute Theater Lab, but with “In Treatment” their connection intensified as Ms. Treem wrote the seven episodes for Ms. Pill’s character, April, a smart, complicated, stubbornly independent architecture student with whom they both identified.

“Alison kept reading the scripts, saying, ‘You’re writing my life,’ and I was like, ‘No, actually, I’m writing my life,’ ” Ms. Treem said during a recent joint interview with Ms. Pill. “We just hit a perfect storm of personality and art. It will probably never happen again.”

Ms. Pill, the more effervescent of the two, countered: “Sure it will. You can just keep writing for me, Sarah. It’s cool. Just write stuff, and then I’ll do it.”

For the sake of this article, Ms. Pill and Ms. Treem were speaking — animatedly, their words spilling over each other’s — via an Internet videophone hook-up. Ms. Pill, who is strawberry blond and slender with a cherubic face, lives in the East Village; Ms. Treem, tall and dark-haired with an intense poise, lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. But the two friends have not been in the city simultaneously since “In Treatment” began its second season early last month. (The show’s sixth episode featuring April is Sunday night, and its final one is May 24.)

Ms. Pill has been back in Toronto shooting “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” a Universal Pictures movie starring Michael Cera in which she plays the drummer in his band. This caps a busy 15 months in which she turned in a memorable performance in “Milk” as Harvey Milk’s motorcycle-driving lesbian campaign manager, earned critical praise as an expletive-spitting powerhouse of rage in Neil LaBute’s play “reasons to be pretty,” spent three weeks at Sundance and then, after Ms. Treem recommended her for the part, did “In Treatment.”
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Alison is featured in this month’s issue of NYLON. Thank you to my friend Lauren for letting me know! I am currently lacking a scanner and unable to scan the magazine, but if anyone would like to donate scans, I would appreciate it. I did however add a photo of Alison in the issue from NYLON’s MySpace.

I feel terrible about the lack of updates, I am so sorry that things are busy for me. But I am working on getting things caught up. I added outtakes of Alison in Manhattan magazine to the gallery, and added photos of Alison from Edgar Wright’s photo blog of the Scott Pilgrim set as well. I am still working on the screencaps of In Treatment, but I swear they will be up soon!