Profile: Mary MacDonald

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Widow Quin, The Playboy of the Western World (2019)
• Wardrobe/Mags, Handbagged (2018)
• Ranyevskaya, The Cherry Orchard (2017)
• Wardrobe/Anna, Old Times (2017)
• Wardrobe/Kate Keller, All My Sons (2017)
• Juno Boyle, Juno and the Paycock (2016)
• Helen Sutherland, The Pitmen Painters (2015)
• Mrs Dai Bread 1/Mrs Beynon, Under Milk Wood (2014)
• Wardrobe/M’Lynn Eatenton, Steel Magnolias (2014)
• Annie, Calendar Girls - The Second Showing (2013)
• Wardrobe, Uncle Vanya (2013)
• Annie, Calendar Girls (2013)
• Wardrobe, The History Boys (2012)
• Susan, Talking Heads (2012)
• Wardrobe, A View From the Bridge (2012)
• Director/Wardrobe, The Miracle Worker (2012)
• Honor, Honour (2011)
• Wardrobe, Gaslight (2011)
• Madeleine, Smile (2010)
• Wardrobe, The 39 Steps (2010)
• Dotty Otley/Wardrobe, Noises Off (2010)
• Director/Wardrobe, Hay Fever (2010)
• Teresa, The Memory of Water (2010)
• Wardrobe, Brassed Off (2009)
• Wardrobe/Ursula Loyer, Vincent in Brixton (2009)
• Wardrobe/Maureen Folan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2009)
• Mrs Marwood/Wardrobe, The Way of the World (2008)
• Winnie, Happy Days (2006)
• Costume design/Wardrobe/Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (2004)
• Wardrobe, Whodunnit (2004)
• Polly Garter/Mrs Waldo, Under Milk Wood (2003)
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2003)
• Maria, Twelfth Night (2002)
• Wardrobe, What the Butler Saw (2002)
• Wardrobe/Antigone, The Theban Plays (2002)
• Lottie Grady, When We Are Married (2002)
• Sandra/Wardrobe, Beautiful Thing (2001)
• Wardrobe, Present Laughter (2001)
• Nora Burke, In the Shadow of the Glen (2000)
• Molly Sweeney, Molly Sweeney (2000)
• Mary Magdalene, Tongues of Fire (2000)
• The Mai, The Mai (1999)
• HMQ, Single Spies (1997)
• Kate, Dancing at Lughnasa (1996)
• Pegeen Mike, The Playboy of the Western World (1995)
• Mrs van Daan, The Diary of Anne Frank (1994)
• Company, Five Women Alone (1994)
• Zana Ferris, Shakespeare Country (1993)
• Grace, Faith Healer (1992)
• Mary Brenham/Liz Morden, Our Country’s Good (1992)
• Ruth Condomine, Blithe Spirit (1992)
• Andy, Stepping Out (1990)
• Olivia, Twelfth Night (1989)
• Daisy Meredith, Daisy Pulls it Off (1989)
• Mary Boyle, Juno and the Paycock (1989)
• Mary Tate, Da (1988)
• Constance Wicksteed, Habeas Corpus (1988)
• Elizabeth, A Voyage Round my Father (1988)
• Varya, The Cherry Orchard (1987)
• Jill Potts, Caught Napping (1987)
• Miss Barnes, The Winslow Boy (1986)
• Company, Happy as a Sandbag (1986)
• Jane, Beauty and the Beast (1986)
• Miss Harper, The Happiest Days of your Life (1985)
• Cecily Cardew, The Importance of Being Earnest (1985)
• Maire, Translations (1984)
• Miriam, Outside Edge (1984)
• Company, The Canterbury Tales (1984)
• Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1984)
• Lila, The Short-Sighted Bear (1983)
• Raina Petkoff, Arms and the Man (1983)
• Sorrel Bliss, Hay Fever (1981)
• Helen, Bodies (1981)
• Phoebe, Toad of Toad Hall (1981)
• Margaret, The Exorcism (1980)
• Betty Whitehouse, Dangerous Corner (1980)
• Parlourmaid, Pygmalion (1980)

Elsewhere

• Director, My Mother Said I Never Should (2018, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, The Diary of Anne Frank (2016, Talisman Theatre)
• Juno Boyle, Juno and the Paycock (2008, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Abigail’s Party (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Dotty Otley, Noises Off (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Mrs Cotton, The Linden Tree (2006, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, The Killing of Sister George (2005, Talisman Theatre)
• Bertha Mason, After Mrs Rochester (2005, Talisman Theatre)
• Rita, Brassed Off (2004, Talisman Theatre)
• Margaret, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003, Talisman Theatre)
• Mabel, A Kenilworth Story (2002, Talisman Theatre)
• Susanna Hall, The Herbal Bed (2001, Talisman Theatre)
• Queen Charlotte, The Madness of George III (2000, Talisman Theatre)
• Portia, The Merchant of Venice (1997, Talisman Theatre)
• Lucinda, Into the Woods (1996, MAC Productions at the Loft Theatre)
• Paulina, Death and the Maiden (1995, Talisman Theatre)
• Tourvel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1995, Talisman Theatre)
• Ellida, The Lady from the Sea (1994, Talisman Theatre)
• Curly’s Wife, Of Mice and Men (1994, Talisman Theatre)
• Lady Teazle, The School for Scandal (1993, Talisman Theatre)
• Kate Nickleby, Nicholas Nickleby (1992, Talisman Theatre)
• Nina, The Seagull (1990, Talisman Theatre)
• Tamara, Titus Andronicus (1980, Ridgeway Players)
• Eliza Doolittle, Pygmalion (1978, Thame Players)
• Nora, A Doll’s House (1977, Thame Players)
• Gossamer Beynon, Under Milk Wood (1977, Thame Players)
• Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1976, Thame Players)
• Annie Sullivan, The Miracle Worker (1975, Thame Players)
• Jill, Jack and Jill (1975, Thame Players)
• Jo, The Secretary Bird (1975, Ridgeway Players)
• Millie, Confusions (1975, Ridgeway Players)

Also credited as

Mary Walsh

Notes

Mary is a LAMDA speech and drama teacher, and is also a founder member of the Tír na nÓg Theatre Company, which aims to promote Irish theatre throughout the Midlands.

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