Terry Tweed

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Terry Tweed
Born (1943-03-23) March 23, 1943 (age 81)
NationalityCanadian
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]

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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.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Director hopes to harvest magic in U of O revival of Farm Show". Ottawa Citizen , March 10, 1987.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tweed, Terry". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
  3. ↑ "Masterful acting abounds in Fennario's Balconville". The Globe and Mail , October 4, 1979.
  4. ↑ "New Lennoxville director: Play a trial run for Swan". The Globe and Mail , January 9, 1982.
  5. ↑ "The Free Theatre to hold fund-raiser May 26 A new Romeo and the regions in retreat". The Globe and Mail , May 2, 1986.
  6. ↑ "Glace Bay Miners' Museum strong, stirring -- right on!". Ottawa Citizen , February 27, 1998.
  7. ↑ "Roasting turkeys". Toronto Star , October 10, 1992.
  8. ↑ "Canadian Baxters aims to do better". The Globe and Mail , August 14, 1980.
  9. ↑ "Masseys larger-than-life portrait of Ontario over-achievers". The Globe and Mail , October 21, 1978.
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