2018
Mary-Colin originally hails from Antigonish and still returns to her favourite spot by the sea, on the edge of a beach called Jimtown. She is an actor, director, writer and co-founder of Frankie Prod. and LunaSea Theatre. Her plays include Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary, Strange Humours, Safe Haven, He’d Be Your Father’s Mother’s Cousin and To Capture Light. As an actor she has appeared in over one hundred plays, many of them new works. She premiered the role of Margaret in The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum by Wendy
Lill. She has worked with Mulgrave Road Theatre, Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador, Festival Antigonish, The Ship’s Company Theatre, Live Bait, Artistic Fraud Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Eastern Front, Neptune Theatre, Centaur Theatre, the Blythe Festival, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre, the Belfry, Tarragon, and numerous homegrown, indie companies as well as in TV and film. For Festival Antigonish and Mulgrave Road and indie company ‘Frankie’, she directed Lauchie, Liza and Rory by Sheldon Currie, a production which has toured the Maritimes and beyond from the Yukon, to Ottawa and even to New
Zealand. She has sat on the Maritime ACTRA Advisory Board, the Talent Trust, and the Canadian Actors’ Equity Maritime Council.
She lives in the old North End of Halifax with her partner Christian Murray and their cat Kyo and she is very proud of their daughter the wonderfully creative Emlyn Murray.
