Terry Tweed
Terry Tweed | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, playwright, theatre director |
Terry Tweed (born 23 March 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario.[1][2]
Career
Primarily known as a stage actress,[1] her roles have included productions of Balconville,[3] Blood Relations,[4] Romeo and Juliet,[5] The Glace Bay Miners' Museum,[6] Driving Miss Daisy, Another Home Invasion, Over the River and Through the Woods, Homechild, Orpheus Descending, The Comedy of Errors and Happy Days, while she has directed productions of Blood Brothers, The Women, Arcadia, Gypsy, Salt Water Moon,[2] Our Town and Albertine in Five Times.[2]
She also starred in the television sitcoms Delilah[7] and The Baxters,[8] and as Lillian Massey in the 1978 television film The Masseys,[9] as well as making guest appearances on Katts and Dog, Street Legal and Skins.
She was cowriter of two plays, Lockhartville (an adaptation of Alden Nowlan's novel Various Persons Named Kevin O'Brien) and On My Own Two Feet.[2]
She is a former professor of theatre at the University of Ottawa,[2] and a former president of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association.[2] She currently teaches theatre at Humber College and at the Birmingham Conservatory of the Stratford Festival.
References
- ^ a b "Director hopes to harvest magic in U of O revival of Farm Show". Ottawa Citizen, March 10, 1987.
- ^ a b c d e f "Tweed, Terry". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Masterful acting abounds in Fennario's Balconville". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 1979.
- ^ "New Lennoxville director: Play a trial run for Swan". The Globe and Mail, January 9, 1982.
- ^ "The Free Theatre to hold fund-raiser May 26 A new Romeo and the regions in retreat". The Globe and Mail, May 2, 1986.
- ^ "Glace Bay Miners' Museum strong, stirring -- right on!". Ottawa Citizen, February 27, 1998.
- ^ "Roasting turkeys". Toronto Star, October 10, 1992.
- ^ "Canadian Baxters aims to do better". The Globe and Mail, August 14, 1980.
- ^ "Masseys larger-than-life portrait of Ontario over-achievers". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 1978.
External links
- Terry Tweed at IMDb
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian television actresses
- Canadian stage actresses
- Actresses from Toronto
- Canadian theatre directors
- Canadian women theatre directors
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian actresses
- 21st-century Canadian actresses
- Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Academic staff of Humber College
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian women writers