Maev Beaty: the Dora award winning Canadian actor on her new play ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’

Q | Oct 22, 2024

Maev Beaty, the Dora winning Canadian actor, is taking the lead role in the Canadian Stage production of the hit Broadway one person show ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’. The play is based on Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling Booker nominated novel of the same name. Maev joins Tom in the studio to talk about why she wanted to take on this 90 minute solo performance. The challenges of that as an actor. And why this play was having so much relevance for her right now in her private life.

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