Nationality Canadian Notable works Refuge | Period 1970s-present | |
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Occupation playwright, theatre director | ||
Mary Vingoe is a Canadian playwright and theatre director. Her play Refuge was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
Originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Vingoe studied theatre at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. She was a founder of Toronto's Nightwood Theatre in 1979, and later co-founded Ship's Company Theatre in Parrsboro and Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax. Plays she has directed or produced include Wendy Lill's The Glace Bay Miner's Museum, George Boyd's Consecrated Ground, Catherine Banks's It Is Solved By Walking and George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls and Beatrice Chancy.
From 2002 to 2007, she was artistic director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
Her plays have included The Company Store, Herring Gull's Egg, Holy Ghosters, Hooligans and Living Curiosities: A Story of Anna Swan.
She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010.