Mary Bacon is an actress living and working in New York City. Mary has worked on and off-Broadway, in television and commercials. Recently guest starring as Nada on “Blue Bloods,” she can also be seen as the demented mom in the Snickers Crispers ads “Curfew” and “Bloopy”. She is one of the virtual community voices in Broadway’s wonderful Dear Evan Hansen directed by Michael Grief, and she will be seen in the new TV series “The Mist” premiering this Spring 2017. This fall, she played Annie in The Roads To Home by Horton Foote at Primary Stages with Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris, after doing May in Queens For A Year at Hartford Stage.
Last season, she was Miss Strong in the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated Women Without Men at The Mint at NY City Center. She has performed in world premieres of new plays both in and out of New York City, notably co-starring in Charles Busch’s NY Times Critic’s Pick The Tribute Artist with Charles Busch and Julie Halston, and on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Rock n Roll starring Rufus Sewell and Sinead Cusack. She was directed by Pam MacKinnon in Horton Foote’s Harrison, TX alongside Jayne Houdyshell and Hallie Foote, and with Judith Light in AR Gurney's Children at Williamstown Theater Festival.
She starred in the NY Times Critic’s Pick Happy Now? at Primary Stages, and as Alma Winemiller in Eccentricities of a Nightingale with TACT, another NY Times Critic’s pick and one of the NY Times top ten productions of the year. She was in The Public’s production of Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson’s musical Giant directed by Michael Greif, and in the scene from Giant chosen for The NY Times top ten moments of the year in theater. Guest stars include “SVU,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Madame Secretary,” “Law and Order,” and in commercials for T Mobile with Aaron Paul, FedEx, and Ameritrade. This summer she is in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Twelfth Night directed by Mortiz Von Stuelpnagel and The Book of Will directed by Davis McCallum.
BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon Drama, and she is a current member of The Actors Center membership company.
Mary Bacon