{"id":19915,"date":"2021-03-04T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=19915"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:37","slug":"mary-sword","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/mary-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary is a puppeteer and aspiring Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies. Her research interests focus on disability theatre, performing profound disability, children\u2019s theatre, and puppetry. Her love of puppetry began through a 杏吧原创 course on puppetry around the world. Since being introduced to puppetry, Mary has gone on to combine her interests of disability theatre and puppetry through the non-profit organization Teaching Awareness through Puppetry in Toronto, where she works with other puppeteers to teach young children about mental health and disability awareness. Inspired by her Drama Studies courses at 杏吧原创, Mary went on to complete a Master of Arts at York University in Theatre and Performance Studies, where she researched, wrote, and created works of theatre on performing profound disability and on being a sibling of individuals with disabilities. She is currently in the process of becoming a PhD candidate for Theatre and Performance Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drama Classes at 杏吧原创 taught me the theory and reasoning behind theatre, and it is this that I fell in love with and what inspired me to continue my education in Theatre and Performance studies. While I do love acting and directing, more than anything I love creating theatre and providing theory for my choices in my creations \u2013 <em>this <\/em>is what I learned to do in my Drama Studies Concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all honesty I chose 杏吧原创 because of the tunnels. However, when arriving at 杏吧原创 I immediately became integrated into the theatre scene of Ottawa and at 杏吧原创. 杏吧原创 is home to two theatre companies, Sock \u2018n\u2019 Buskin Theatre Company (SnB), and 杏吧原创 Musical Theatre Society (CMTS), as well as an improv troupe. From the first week of my first year at 杏吧原创 I was immediately involved with creating plays, and by the time I had reached the end of my fourth year I had acted in over 10 productions, stage-managed, and had directed both a play and a musical. The Drama section in 杏吧原创\u2019s Department of English provided me the educational background in theatre, fully explaining to me exactly <em>what<\/em> it was I was doing in my extra-curriculars. It is this educational background that sparked my love of theatre; I fell in love with the ins and outs of theatre, rather than just acting or directing \u2013 the reasoning and theory behind the theatre is what inspired me, which is exactly what I learned from my Drama classes at 杏吧原创.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19916,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Mary","cu_people_last_name":"Sword","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26,56],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-19915","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-alumni-ds"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"BA Honours English with a Concentration in Drama Studies and a Minor in History (杏吧原创, 2019); MA Theatre and Performance Studies (York, 2020)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25820,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/19915\/revisions\/25820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=19915"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=19915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}