2022
Mauralea Austin (she/her) has been an actor for over forty years with side excursions into directing, adjudicating, and dramaturgy. A major part of her life ahs also involved teaching acting and voice; twenty years in various programs at Neptune, several years at Dalhousie and Mount St. Vincent and a number of independent workshops, courses and coaching. She is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher and has incorporated that practice into her teaching. As well, she holds a CELTA trained teacher for English as a Second Language.
After an MFA in Theatre and working for a number of years ans an actor in Toronto, she returned to school for an MA in journalism, subsequently working at CKCO in Kitchener and then CBC TV and Radio in Winnipeg, balancing theatre and journalism. Inevitably theatre won and in 1999, she and her family moved to Halifax because it was finally the right time to fulfill her dream of living by the ocean. She co-founded LunaSea Theatre in 2006, appearing in a majority of its productions until 2016. She has worked with a number of other theatre companies around the province and is a recipient of three Merritt acting awards.
