Gemini, Genie and Dora Award—winning actor Martha Burns joins the cast of BOUND (Dec 14–16, 2017). In this groundbreaking, dystopian production featuring reconstructed music by Handel, she plays the role of The State.
Martha Burns has performed leading roles at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals and at theatres across the country. A founding member of Soulpepper Theatre, she developed their youth mentorship and Soulpepper in School programs. She is a double Gemini winner (Best Actress in a Leading Role, Slings and Arrows), the recipient of two Best Supporting Actress Genie Awards (Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Love and Savagery), two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Trafford Tanzi and The Miracle Worker), and the winner of the 2005 Barbara Hamilton Award for Excellence and Professionalism in the Performing Arts. With actor/writer Susan Coyne, Burns wrote and directed the TIFF’08 short, How Are You?, and produced and directed the documentary Robin, Mark and Richard III. She has served on the boards of Canadian Stage, the Shaw Festival, Peggy Baker Dance Projects and the Toronto Council for the Arts, and most recently worked with performers from Nunavut’s Qaggiavuut society to create the play Kiviuq Returns. She currently teaches acting at the National Theatre School.