Alison Gates was born on 1988 or 1989 and is an American comedy writer and actress who is currently a head writer for Saturday Night Live.
10 Facts About Alison Gates
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Alison Gates previously lived in Chicago and worked with the Second City's touring company and an all-female iO Theater troupe.
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At Yale University Alison Gates, who plays guitar and mandolin, performed in Measure for Measure among other shows.
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Alison Gates was a managing editor of The Yale Record humor magazine and graduated from Yale in 2011.
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Alison Gates said that "one of the great things about performing at Second City" was getting to continually "make tweaks and re-improvise" scenes after having planned with fellow cast members and performed in front of an audience.
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In Chicago, Alison Gates was a member of Virgin Daiquiri, an all-female iO improv group.
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Alison Gates performed with Casual Encounters for iO, Shinbone Alley for Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, and the Fallen Elegant.
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At an iO showcase before the forty-fourth season of Saturday Night Live, NBC's long-running sketch comedy show, Alison Gates performed pieces about "a plantation docent describing her awful life, a teacher humiliated by a fall in front of the class, and White House advisor Stephen Miller," according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Alison Gates was announced as a new SNL writer on September 21,2018.
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Alison Gates is a head writer for the show as of the second half of the show's 47th season.