In January 2023, Mary was featured in the inaugural issue of The Call Sheet magazine. Check out the digital version of the magazine here!
Actor, Filmmaker, Comedian
Mary grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. An awkward queer growing up in the South, she felt most at home performing in plays and doing impressions of the girl who says “It’s not my fault I’ve got a heavy flow and a wide set vagina” from Mean Girls over and over and over again instead of her math homework.
Theatre credits: Athena at Writers Theatre (winner of the 2022 Jeff Award for best Fight Choreography), The Wolves at Goodman Theatre (winner of the 2018 Jeff Award for Best Ensemble); Hookman at Steep Theatre. New Work Development: The Kennedy Center, The Latinx Theatre Commons, Sideshow Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, PlayMakers Laboratory and The Neo-Futurists. You can see her perform with the long-running improv team Devil’s Daughter at iO Theatre in Chicago every Friday at 10pm.
In 2018, Mary co-starred in and co-produced the short film Cool for Five Seconds, written by Calamity West. The short has been featured at 22 festivals, received the Grand Prize at the Midwest Film Awards and Best Ensemble at the Milwaukee Shorts Fest in 2021. Mary’s short film script Rough River Lake was a semifinalist for the 2020 Chicago Community Builders Grant and the Mass Epiphany script competition. The short has since won Best Short Film and the Audience Award at London International Short Film Festival. Mary is a 2021 3Arts Make A Wave grantee.
In Fall 2022, Mary was in production for two short films: FERN, co-created with Katherine Bourne Taylor, and THE UNFINISHED FILM, produced, written by and starring Gemma Clarke and Hannah Antman. Both are set to be released in summer 2023.
In November 2022, Mary was granted the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Midwest Film Festival for her work on Rough River Lake, and in January 2023, Mary was a featured filmmaker in the inaugural issue of The Call Sheet Magazine.
She seeks to celebrate and uplift queer, feminist perspectives in every aspect of the creative process.
This is Mary (me, I am the one writing this- awkward, I know) posing with her (my?) Emerging Filmmaker Statue at the Best of the Midwest Film Awards in November 2022. The statue is clear, but she promises (I promise) that it’s there. :)