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The site contains Alison Porter's work as a poet, playwright, actor and the founder of The White Knight Theatre Company
The White Knight is an inventor, a benevolent fighter and above all a persister.
"He fell off in front...., he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways'".
Alison has a passion for bringing together artists from diverse disciplines to collaborate on creative projects. She has particular interest in the use of theatre to explore real life societal problems.
Originally from Birmingham, she studied modern languages at Leeds University, creative writing at the University of East Anglia and recently completed a PhD at Warwick University in the use of verbatim theatre to re-present criminal justice issues.
Her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies. She was long-listed for the National Poetry Prize in 2015 and 2019, and short-listed for the Plough Prize in 2025.
As a performer she specialises in movement roles, credits include ; Primary School Teacher in The Messiah directed by Deborah Warner, Magazine Woman in Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's Human Zoo, a tv producer in Plan B's music video Love Goes Down and a refugee in How to Hold Your Breath at The Royal Court.
She is a trustee for the theatre company ThickSkin and a former trustee at The Synergy Theatre Project, Out of Joint (now Stockroom) and Told by an Idiot.
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