Alisa Harris Actor
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Actor Bio
Asheville, NC is where I was born and I basically grew up on or backstage at Asheville Community Theater. I won awards in sports and the arts in Asheville before going to college in Boston. After two degrees and a couple years living in London, I settled in Wilmington, NC. I worked as a talent agent for film and television actors and as an entertainment promotions specialist and graphic designer with my company, imageBLEND promotions. In 2012, I built and opened a dinner theater, TheatreNOW, in downtown Wilmington, NC. TheatreNOW was sold in February of 2020. I founded the not-for-profit group, Theatre Network of Wilmington/Superstar Academy, for the promotion of theater arts education for youth and underserved populations. I executive produced a multimedia project aimed to promote prominent women in the Wilmington, NC community entitled the Women of Wilmington (WOW) Project (www.womenofwilmington.com) and produced a short video of prominent Wilmington women in the arts in 2010/11. In 2015 and 2019, I was nominated for an YWCA Woman of Achievement Award in the Arts. In 2025 I was inducted into my high school alma mater's Alumni Artist Hall of Fame.
Recent film & tv credits include Amazon Prime's The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Runarounds, Disney's Haunted Mansion, Netflix's Outer Banks, Ozark, and Along for the Ride, FOX's Welcome to Flatch, Tyler Perry's Haves and Have Nots and All the Queen's Men, HULU's The Act opposite Patricia Arquette, ABC's Good Girls opposite Mae Whitman, feature films The Glorias, Fist Fist opposite Ice Cube and Charlie Day, Megan Leavey with Kate Mara, a scene with Jake Gyllenhal in Prisoners, Wilmington produced feature film, Bolden, ABC's Secrets & Lies opposite Juliette Lewis, Piranha 3DD, the Sequel opposite David Hasselhoff, The Bay (aka ISOPODS) with director, Barry Levinson, two episodes of HBO's Eastbound and Down opposite Lily Tomlin, the pilot episode of Witches of East End for Lifetime, Hallmark's Christmas in Harmony, and several independent shorts, trailers and pilots. I also spent a couple months as Melissa McCarthy's stand-in/double in the feature, Tammy and you may catch me in a Planter's Peanut Commercial, a Duke Energy spot, United States Marine Corps, Red Hat, or a South Carolina Education Lottery Commercial.
Favorite theatrical performances include roles in Into the Woods, Shakespeare in Love, Ruthless, Rocky Horror Show, Hair, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Footloose, Steel Magnolias (2x), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2x), Deathtrap, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and my many roles in children's theatre with Pied Piper Children's Theatre in Wilmington, NC. I co-produced and directed Songs for a New World, and directed Clue: the Musical, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, and Nuptials for theatre companies in Wilmington, NC and oversaw a development of Blue Velvet, the Musical (www.bluevelvetmusical.com) which had a workshop preview in 2011 during the Cucalorus Film Festival and a concert in 2014.
Currently I serve as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Arts Council of Wilmington and am on the Board of Trustees for Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. in Wilmington, NC. I am also a past Chair of the now defunct board of Dram Tree Shakespeare in Wilmington, NC. In 2025, I was inducted into my high school's Alumni Artist Hall of Fame.
Finishing up writing and illustrating my first children's book. Look for more information later in 2026.
In early 2012, I adopted newborn son, Ashton, and we live in Wilmington, NC with our rescue Shiba Inu, Adrian. I enjoy reading, cooking, painting, the Boston Red Sox, traveling, and spending time with my son.