Dubliner Mary has worked extensively in Irish language film, theatre and TV.

Her career began in Jim Sheridan’s production of THE HA’PENNY PLACE at Project Arts Centre. She performed in RTE’s LIVE MIKE series, played Maura O Donnell in Robert Wynne Simmon’s award winning film THE OUTCASTS and toured in Garry Hynes’ acclaimed production of THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Many tours with Druid Theatre Company followed as well as tours with the Abbey, Gemini Productions, Project Theatre Company, Theatre Festival Productions, Aisling Ghéar and TEAM.

Mary wrote and produced the documentary BÓTHAR SEOIGHE for TG4 about the urban Gaeltacht in Belfast. She was PA on the Irish language feature film KINGS and directed Aodh Ó Domhnaill’s RÉPUBLICA, the first Irish language play to be produced at the Lyric theatre.

A gifted interpreter of blues ballads, her recordings include a collection of ragtime & vaudeville songs from the 1920s. Musical tours include SEAN NÓS MEETS THE BLUES, BAWDY BALLAS - SONG IN THE WORK OF JAMES JOYCE and theIMRAM blues project: DHÚISÍOS AR MAIDIN, with songs translated by poets Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock.

In 2021 Mary received an Arts Council Theatre Project Award which has allowed her to write a comedy about three actors touring a musical show.