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Award-winning actor, theatre creator, and writer, Maev Beaty was born in , and is based in Toronto, Ontario. She grew up on farms in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, and completed high school in Kingston. She graduated from the drama program at University College, University of Toronto in

Maev Beaty has acted in twenty-three Canadian premières and participated in major theatrical events such as Theatre Junction’s premiere of Angel’s Trumpet by Sharon Pollock (); Theatrefront’s The Mill series (, ); Volcano Theatre’s The African Trilogy (Luminato ); and The Penelopiad (Nightwood Theatre ).

She has played for seven seasons at Stratford Festival: as Goneril in King Lear; Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (); Kate in The Last Wife by Kate Hennig (); the wayward protagonist in Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch (); Elmire in Tartuffe (); Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal (), a ruthless and determined newspaper owner in Michael Healey's adaptation of The Front Page (); Gertrude in Hamlet (); and Jane Pilkings, the English wife of a British administrator in Nigeria in Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka (Patterson Theatre, ).

She has acted in such diverse and challenging plays as The De Chardin Project (Theatre Passe Muraille ); Terminus (Outside the March, ); Proud by Michael Healey (); Montparnasse (co-creator with&#;Erin Shields and Andrea Donaldson, &#;Groundwater, ); Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon Theatre); Birnam Wood (Theatre Rusticle ); Dance of the Red Skirts (Theatre Columbus); Palace of the End by Judith Thompson (); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage). For Soulpepper Theatre Company, she has starred in La Ronde (), Parfumerie (), and The Last Wife ().

For Maev Beaty, there is a heightened risk in working with new plays: “I’ve gotta be nimble. I’ve gotta work quick and deep. And, to be honest, I’m also consistently forced to figure out what is about my ego and what is the work: rewrites, cuts, re-ordering of scenes, shifts in intention, shifts in who’s driving the story, how buried the subtext is. Can I act that bit or do I need to say it? I love it; it lights up all the bits of my brain. Then we’re in previews and it’s the very first time any other humans are going on the journey, and everyone is bonded by risk and curiosity about whether the story is going to get across.” (quoted from )

She is a three-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winner (The Penelopiad, Passion Play, The Last Wife), and ten-time nominee.

Beaty is co-Artistic Director of Sheep No Wool with her husband, director Alan Dilworth, which launched an Edward Bond festival in Toronto in She is also Artistic Associate of Groundwater Productions and Outside the March.

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Profile by Anne Nothof, Athabasca University

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