Seana McKenna

Seana is one of Canada’s best actresses and one of my favourites. To use the phrase “her credits are too numerous to list” is to use it literally. Here are some: at Stratford, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Portia, Viola, Cordelia, Juliet, and the first female Richard III (2011) and Julius Caesar (2018). Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Grand Theatre, London); Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre New Brunswick); Eliza in Pygmalion and Candida (Shaw Festival); Medea and Hedda Gabler (Manitoba Theatre Centre).  She has been awarded three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her performances in Saint Joan (Theatre Plus), Orpheus Descending (Mirvish/RMTC), and for directing Valley Song (New Globe); a Jessie Richardson Award for Wit (Vancouver Playhouse); and a Genie for Hanging Garden. She has an Honorary MFA in Acting, and Doctor of Sacred Letters from Trinity College, University of Toronto; an Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal; and is a member of the Order of Canada.