Mary is an actress, writer and radio host, and is honoured to be part of the cult of Mary Wells' that turn up as performers. Mary Wells the Motown singer, the current Scottish opera singer, and the boozy 18th century star of Drury Lane. This Mary Wells trained as an actress at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1998, and moved to LA in 2008. Work in the UK embraced a balance of classic and experimental/devised work for theatre and many tours, and lead and supporting roles for film and TV. 'King Lear' with Tag theatre, Viola in 12th night and Macbeth with The Voice Studio, 'Semi Detached' and 'A Kind of Alaska' Chichester Festival Theatre, 'Faith Healer' and 'Judith', the Citizens Theatre, 'The Woman who cooked her husband' once in 1998 and again in 2008, 'I Confess' at the Arches theatre and at Hoxton Hall in London, 'Alberichs Curse' with Scottish Opera, European tour of Oliver Twist (TNT theatre/ADG), devised work with Reeling Writhing theatre, Semi Detached at Chichester Festival Theatre, Judith, Faith Healer and the world of the wild things at the Citizens Theatre, a solo show for a year and 2 Broadway tours of 'the Red Balloon' and 'Martha' across the United States and Canada, after successful runs at the New Victory theatre, New York, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kennedy Centre. She was in Jo Clifford's radical adaptation of Faust, parts One and Two at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Electra in David Hare's adaptation for a research project with The Voice Studio in London, Cuchulainn, Hound of Ulster with Cahoots Northern Ireland, invited to the Smithsonian, in Washington DC. She was also the voice for BBC3's My Childhood which won a Scottish BAFTA. She performed Cyprus for Mull Theatre after its West End transfer to Trafalga Studios, and from there departed for sunnier shores for a residency with Honolulu theatre in Hawai'i for 8 months - playing Aerial in The Little Mermaid. She returned to the UK for BBC drama - Half Moon Investigates, where she played the hapless Miss Heeley. In Los Angeles, she has appeared in various TV shows such as 'Divine White'S Introduction to Hollywood' and features such as 'Elena Undone' and 'Meth Head' for Film McQueen, and is the voice for Eharmony in the UK. She is interesting in training and in supporting the growth of other artists, and also works as a performance reviewer for the National Council for Drama training, London, and more informally with Nadine George of The Voice Studio International. Mary has just completed a research paper with the artistic directors of The National Theatre Scotland and the Traverse, led by Ros Steen, Head of Centre for Voice in Performance at www.rsamd.co.uk. Mary is also a writer with a highly successful adaptation of Virginia Ironside's The Huge Bag of Worries which she performed as a solo show for a year - now performed by another actress, it has run consistently since 2002 in Scotland and has been sponsored by BBC's Children in Need and also the British Council. Her play for trapeze 'Hester and Jude' was shortlisted by the Almeida Theatre, London for ongoing development and is now being adapted for screen aswell as for stage in California. Her monologue from I Confess is also published with Fairplay press, after she was lead artist on I Confess, a show for London in 2006, and she was invited to perform it at Madam JOJO's Best of Stand Up Drama 2006. The twice monthly Mary Wells Show airs to a cult following on www.KCLAFM.com in Los Angeles which she describes as a mixture of 'relevant irreverent feature and talk'. www.marywells.org