Alison learned to play the drums for her role as Kim Pine and surprised both herself and her cast mates by quickly learning the difficult instrument. She sings and plays drums in the film as well as on the soundtrack. Her acting performance as Kim Pine is characterized by the fact that she almost never blinks or breaks eye contact through the course of the film. She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series In Treatment. She is currently filming the HBO pilot of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom in Los Angeles, California.