Alyse Michelle Bierly

Alyse Bierly is a 19 year old actress, singer, dancer, and activist originally from Boston, Massachusetts. She is a rising sophomore at American University in Washington, DC, majoring in Musical Theater. Alyse began acting at age 8, and performed in many educational and community theatre productions throughout elementary, middle, and high school. At 10 years old, she joined Voices Boston, training in opera under the direction of Andy Icochea Icochea, former master of the Vienna Boys Choir. She had the honor of performing with Voices Boston at many venues in the Northeast, including Boston Symphony Hall, Tanglewood with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Carnegie Hall with renowned opera singer Anne Sofie Von Otter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. When Alyse was 13, she founded Seams of Hope, making blankets, pillows, and care packages for children all around the world fighting DIPG, an inoperable and terminal brain tumor. To date, she has sent over 50 blankets/pillows/care packages to 16 U.S. states as well as multiple provinces in Australia and Canada. Not only does she advocate for kids with cancer, but she is also a gun control and mental health activist, planning her high school's March For Our Lives student walkout, and becoming a member of the Kind Angels Group, a social media group that helps individuals in need of someone to talk to. When she is not on stage, Alyse loves to make care packages for Seams of Hope, write pen pal letters through Save the Children, work as a Promise Leader promoting gun control and gun safety in schools for Sandy Hook Promise, and see as much theater as she can!