Mary-Colin Chisholm

In 2000, Chisholm directed the theatrical piece called Frankie, starring Mary Ellen Maclean. Christian Murray coached the movement and provided sound for the play and the three later founded the theatre company Frankie Productions.{{cite web|url=http://lunaseatheatre.ca/about-lunasea/ |title=About |accessdate=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130115111629/http://lunaseatheatre.ca/about-lunasea/ |archivedate=January 15, 2013 }} Chisholm was then commissioned to write the CBC radio series He'd Be Your Mother's Father's Cousin, which she later adapted to for the stage.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecasket.ca/archives/20459|title=Mary Colin Chisholm comes home|author=Debbie Johnson|date=July 10, 2012|accessdate=October 5, 2012}}

In 2005, Chisholm appeared as Christine in Daniel MacIvor's How It Works.{{cite web|url=http://www.festivalantigonish.com/pdf/works-review.pdf|title=How it Works is pure joy for Maritimers|author=Stephen Pederson|date=August 27, 2005|accessdate=October 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713215246/http://www.festivalantigonish.com/pdf/works-review.pdf#|archive-date=2006-07-13|url-status=dead}} Chisholm performed in a co-op production of The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron at the TNS Studio Space in Halifax in 2006. Four of the actors later decided to form a theatre company which was incorporated in 2007 as LunaSea Theatre. The company has performed, amongst others, Chisholm's To Capture Light, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, and an all-woman production of Twelfth Night (2009).{{cite web|url=http://lunaseatheatre.ca/past-shows/|title=Past Shows|accessdate=October 5, 2012}}

In 2008, Chisholm performed in Christian Murray's play, Bone Boy, as the mother of a child brought to life from a tooth.{{cite web|url=http://live.haligonia.ca/halifax-ns/news-headlines/26189-christian-murrays-bone-boy-throws-a-hungry-dog-a-pile-of-bones.html |title=Christian Murray's Bone Boy throws a hungry dog a pile of bones |author=Max Winkelman |date=May 30, 2012 |accessdate=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601012302/http://live.haligonia.ca/halifax-ns/news-headlines/26189-christian-murrays-bone-boy-throws-a-hungry-dog-a-pile-of-bones.html |archivedate=June 1, 2012 }}

In 2010, Chisholm played the emergency medical technician, Eleanor Carr, in the SyFy-produced TV series Haven and she also appeared in the Canadian thriller The Corridor.

Chisholm directed Lauchie, Liza and Rory by Sheldon Currie in 2010 for the Eastern Front Theatre{{cite web|url=http://www.easternfronttheatre.com/index.php/category/uncategorized/page/2/|title=Category "Uncategorized"|accessdate=October 5, 2012}} and in 2011 for the Mulgrave Road Theatre, in association with Frankie Productions at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.{{cite web|url=http://www.capebretonpost.com/Arts/2011-04-07/article-2410854/Lauchie,-Liza-and-Rory-on-the-big-stage-in-Ottawa/1|title='Lauchie, Liza and Rory' on the big stage in Ottawa|author=Staff ~ The Cape Breton Post|date=April 7, 2011|accessdate=October 5, 2012}} She also performed in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls for the LunaSea Theatre, as well as in Michel Nadeau's And Slowly Beauty ... playing the waitress Anita.{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/and-slowly-beauty-magical-play-unfolds-like-a-beautiful-dance/article629984/|title=And Slowly Beauty: Magical play unfolds like a beautiful dance|author=Susan Walker|website=The Globe and Mail |date=October 7, 2011|accessdate=October 5, 2012}}

In 2012, Chisholm performed the role of God in the play, Creation, and in a one-woman version of her play He'd Be Your Mother's Father's Cousin at Festival Antigonish.

In 2014, Chisholm appeared in the award-winning film Cast No Shadow.

Chisholm's play Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary premiered at Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2018 under the direction of Martha Irving.{{Cite web|last=Lewis|first=Lara|date=March 23, 2018|title=Review: Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary at Neptune|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/review-half-cracked-the-legend-of-sugar-mary-at-neptune/Content?oid=13520903|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 5, 2020|website=The Coast Halifax|language=en}}

• Safe Haven (1991)
• He'd Be Your Mother's Father's Cousin (2000)
• Strange Humours (2000)
• To Capture Light (2008)
• Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary (2018)

• Black Harbour (1996 - 1999)
• Pit Pony (1999)
• Made in Canada (1999 - 2003)
• Haven (2010)

In 2008, Chisholm was the recipient of the Mayor's Award for Achievement in Theatre at the Robert Merritt Awards.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2008|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2008.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}} Chisholm has been nominated for several Robert Merritt Awards including Outstanding Actress (in 2011 for Woman and Scarecrow, 2009 for Talking Heads: An Evening of Alan Bennett Monologues, and 2002 for Sisters), Outstanding Director (2011 for Lauchie, Liza and Rory), Outstanding Play by a Nova Scotian Playwright (2003 with Jackie Torrens, Ed Thomasen, and Bruce Barton for Private Views) and Outstanding Supporting Actress (2007 for The Little Years).{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2002|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2002.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2003|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2003.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2007|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2007.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2009|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2009.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2011|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/images/merritt/pdf/Nominations-2011.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}} Chisholm was awarded the Theatre Nova Scotia Legacy Award at the 2018 Robert Merritt Awards.{{Cite web|last=Lake|first=Michael|date=March 27, 2018|title=2b Theatre sweeps the 2018 Robert Merritt Theatre Awards with eight wins|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/2018-robert-merritt-awards/Content?oid=13615176|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=The Coast Halifax|language=en}} In 2019, she was nominated at the Merritt Awards in the category Outstanding Play by a Nova Scotian Playwright for her play Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019|title=Theatre Nova Scotia's Robert Merritt Award Nominations 2019|url=https://immediac.blob.core.windows.net/theatrenovascotia/Merritt%20Highlights/Nominations%202019.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Theatre Nova Scotia}}

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• {{IMDb name|id=0158285|name=Mary-Colin Chisholm}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20141011092143/http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsabc/chisolm_mary_colin.html Mary-Colin Chisholm] at Northern Stars
• [http://lunaseatheatre.ca/ LunaSea Theatre]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620053125/http://www.fprod.org/ Frankie Productions]
• [http://mulgraveroad.ca/ Mulgrave Road Theatre]
• [http://www.belfry.bc.ca/ The Belfry Theatre]

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