Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Coulter, Clare
Talented and versatile actor born in Toronto, Ontario in 1942, daughter of John Coulter .
Ms Coulter has appeared in many the major houses in Canada in a wide variety of roles, performing in the works of of the country's great writers: Michel Tremblay , Roland Lepage , Judith Thompson , John Murrell . She played in Ann-Marie MacDonald 's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and W.O. Mitchell 's Back to Beulah , both at Centaur Theatre .
In 1969 she was part of Theatre Passe Muraille and joined its process of collective creation . She has also had a long and fruitful relationship with Tarragon Theatre . She is particularly adept at monologues, and has toured internationally in Wallace Shawn's The Fever, and appeared in a dramatic interpretation of Margaret Atwood's short stories, Good Bones (Tarragon, 1999). In 2007, she appeared in Linda Griffiths ' Age of Arousal in a Nightwood Theatre production at the Factory Theatre .
Ms Coulter won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1984 for her performance in Tarragon's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. She has also performed on radio, television and in film.
Last updated 2009-03-17
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