Mary Kirkland

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Mary Kirkland
NationalityCanadian
OccupationSet decorator
Awards Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design

Mary Kirkland is a Canadian set decorator. She has worked in both film and television.

Among her television work was Little Mosque on the Prairie . [1] In 2014, she was nominated with Rupert Lazarus and Sean Breaugh for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series for Satisfaction . [2]

In 2015, she served as set director for the Canadian-Irish film Room , [3] and The VVitch . [4] For Room, she and Ethan Tobman won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design. [5] While some of the Canadian Screen Award-winners for Room were not Canadian, Kirkland was noted along with Jacob Tremblay, Tobman and Sid Armour as among the film's Canadian award recipients. [6]

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