Mary C. Huntington
Mary C. Huntington is the founding Artistic Director of The Nora Theatre Company, overseeing artistic and operational policy and the development of its seventy-two productions to date. Of these, thirty have been Boston or New England area premieres, five have been world premieres, and three have been world premiere translations or adaptations. Over the course of its history, the company has been accorded many accolades, including seven Elliot Norton Awards, five IRNE Awards, and inclusion in many year-end “Best of” lists. Ms. Huntington began her theater career as an actress, playing in such Off-Off Broadway, regional, and summerstock productions as The Little Foxes, Candide, Company, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Annie Get Your Gun, Baby, Agnes of God, and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Her appearances for The Nora include roles in Virginia, Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Spoils of War, Carthaginians, The Club, and Equus, among others. While the company resided at Harvard University, she also acted and directed for The Nora/Harvard student collaborations. While living in New York City, she produced and performed in her own musical nightclub act. She holds an MFA from Brandeis University, where she was an artist-in-residence, and apprenticed in theater production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Barn Theatre in Michigan. Ms. Huntington is one of the leaders in the development of Central Square Theater. Her work in the areas of fundraising, design of the new space, and creation of a new management structure contributed to the realization of the partnership with Underground Railway Theater and the collaboration with MIT and the City of Cambridge. A former StageSource board member, she serves on the Executive Committee of NEAT – the Producers’ Association of New England Area Theatres and on the board of the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, of which she is also a founding member. This past June, she received the 2013 StageSource Theatre Hero Award.