Alie B. Gorrie (she/her) is thrilled to bring TOUCH to the stage after working on the project in development for the past three years! As an actor, educator, and disability inclusion advocate, Alie B. is on a mission to build a more inclusive world through the arts. Favorite performance credits include Bastard Jones (Off-Broadway), Seussical (national tour) and Shrek the Musical (Red Mountain Theatre). She is the founder of Songs for Sight, an organization serving children and teens with low vision across Alabama, and she is a recent recipient of the Advocate of the Year Award by the Alabama Governors Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. Additionally, Alie B. works with arts organizations across the country on their disability inclusion efforts, and her writing on this topic has been published in American Theatre Magazine. Alie B. holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Belmont University and her MA in Arts in Medicine from the University of Florida. Thank you to this incredible team and Opera Birmingham… give me optimism or nothing at all!