Mary-Colin Chisholm

Born in Antigonish, Mary-Colin Chisholm is a Canadian actor, dramatist, and co-assistant director of LunaSea Theatre and Frankie Productions. She directed Frankie in 2000, wrote a CBC radio serial called He'd Be Your Mother's Father's Cousin, and later adapted it for the stage. In 2005 she played Christine in Daniel MacIvor's How It Works, and the following year she acted in The Donahue Sisters. Her stage work also includes Bone Boy, Top Girls, and And Slowly Beauty..., and she directed Lauchie, Liza and Rory. On television she was Eleanor Carr in Haven, and her films include the thriller The Corridor (2010) and Cast No Shadow (2014). Her plays include To Capture Light and Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary, which had its premiere at Neptune Theatre in Halifax in 2018. The Robert Merritt Awards gave her a mayor's prize for theater achievement in 2008 and the Theatre Nova Scotia Legacy Award in 2018, and she has received several Merritt nominations.