Three-year-old Alison Elliott sat in her car singing the haunting lines of Ophelia in “Hamlet”. By the time she was 4, Elliott’s parents had to pretend she was a theatrical understudy and create fake five-minute rehearsals to indulge her yearning to be on stage. Read more...

Photo: Alumna Alison Elliott is currently starring in “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” a play that premiered Saturday in Pasadena. Elliott performs alongside her mother, father and younger brother, and said her close relationship with her family allowed her to get past the strange relationships the characters experience in the play. (Courtesy of Craig Shwartz)