Thom Allison

Thom Allison is a Canadian actor.[1] He is best known for his regular recurring role as Pree in the television series Killjoys,[2] for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.[3]

Primarily a stage actor, he first attained prominence for his performance as Robin Turner in Canadian Stage's 2000 stage adaptation of Outrageous!,[1] for which he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Musical in 2001.[4] He has also frequently appeared in productions at the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival, and in touring productions of Rent and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,[5] and appeared as drag queen Therese in the first episode of Kim's Convenience.[6]

In 2019, Allison and Micah Barnes collaborated on Knishes 'n Grits, a stage show in which they explored the links between Jewish music and African American music.[7]

Allison was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba as the son of a Black Nova Scotian father and a Mennonite mother.[8]

References
  1. Richard Ouzonian, "Mad about the boy". Toronto Star, September 29, 2000.
  2. S. E. Fleenor, "Killjoys' Pree is a gender-thwarting style icon". SyFy Wire, August 22, 2019.
  3. Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards: Winners Announced For Scripted Drama, Comedy Categories". Entertainment Tonight Canada, May 27, 2020.
  4. Michael Posner, "Iron Road tops the lot at Doras". The Globe and Mail, May 19, 2001.
  5. Alison Mayes, "Putting the broad in Broadway". Winnipeg Free Press, July 29, 2010.
  6. Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, "Kim's Convenience stars pick their favorite episodes (and a recipe!) to celebrate season 4 debut". Entertainment Weekly, March 31, 2020.
  7. Ruth Schweitzer and Kathryn Kates, "The links between African-American and Jewish music". Canadian Jewish News, May 17, 2019.
  8. Robert Crew, "Allison gives Outrageous character a new twist ; Musical changed by actor's background". Toronto Star, September 24, 2000.


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