An Afternoon with Mary Walsh

Sunday Apr 30 2017 2:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium

In conversation with Lara Rae and signing her novel Crying for the Moon (HarperCollins Canada). Co-presented by the Winnipeg Interantional Writers Festival as part of our collaborative Spring Literary Series.

In this funny and poignant debut novel, actress, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh has created the unforgettable Maureen Brennan, a young woman coming of age in late 1960s St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Mary Walsh was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She studied acting at Ryerson University and is the creator of the CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which has won numerous Gemini, Canadian Comedy and Canadian Screen Awards. She is a versatile actor and has appeared in both dramatic and comedy series, including the Gemini Award winner Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which she wrote and starred in. Recently, Walsh has starred in Sensitive Skin, Rookie Blue and Slasher. She currently has several feature films in development, and in 2017 the cast of Hatching, Matching and Dispatching will be reunited for a CBC feature called Christmas Fury, which Walsh wrote, is producing and will star in. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

Host Lara Rae is the co-founding A.D of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and one of the award winning developers of the hit show Little Mosque on the Prairie.

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