Ensemble Bios

Mary Haney

In her twenty-seventh season at the Shaw Festival, Ms Mary Haney appears in Present Laughter and Hedda Gabler. Last season she appeared in Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish – A Comedy as Lizzie, and as Hilda in Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks.

Best known to Shaw audiences for her critically acclaimed performance in the 1993 production of Saint Joan, Mary has appeared in over 20 Shaw productions including John Bull’s Other Island, Harvey, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, Albertine in Five Times, An Inspector Calls, as Mrs Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Cassilis Engagement, The Kiltartan Comedies, Too True To Be Good, The Crucible, Major Barbara, Bus Stop, Rutherford and Son (both in the regular Shaw season and the post-season tour to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre), Ah, Wilderness!, Laura, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Woman of No Importance, Six Characters in Search of an Author (2000), You Can’t Take It With You, All My Sons as Kate Keller, Sorry Wrong Number, Cavalcade, Waste, Busman’s Honeymoon, The Front Page, Blithe Spirit, Counsellor-at-Law, Overruled, A Cuckoo in the Nest, This Happy Breed, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, When We Are Married, which she later toured to the National Arts Centre, Berkeley Square, Once in a Lifetime, You Never Can Tell, The Voysey Inheritance, Banana Ridge and The Cherry Orchard. In The Shaw’s 1979 production of The Corn is Green, Mary had the opportunity to appear with her mother, actress Sheila Haney.

Bitten by the acting bug in the 1970s while working backstage at the Stratford Festival, where her mother was an actress, Mary has appeared on stage in Fredericton, Philadelphia, Montreal, London (Ontario), Calgary and Toronto. Her theatre credits include five seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Farther West at the Tarragon Theatre. She earned a Dora Award Best Actress nomination for her performance in Translations at the Toronto Free Theatre and a Johnny Award for Best Supporting Actress in the comedy Will Any Gentleman? at The Shaw.

Born in Welland and raised in Hamilton and Toronto, Mary is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.