Maggie Blake
Stratford (selected): Child performer advocate for Annie, Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale. Acting: title role in The Diary of Anne Frank, Queen Isabel in Richard II, Macbeth, Brothers Karamazov. Child performer advocate: R+J, Hamlet-911, Wedding Band, etc. Elsewhere: An actor for 25 years, Maggie played leading roles across Canada. She now works supporting children in many capacities; as co-founder of The Collaborative, a psychotherapy and consulting business in downtown Stratford, seeing youth in private practice and consulting with organizations and theatre schools on Trauma-Informed Practice. Maggie’s full-time job is leading research and knowledge mobilization at Boost Child and Youth Advocacy Centre in Toronto. She holds an MA in Classical Theatre, an MA in Child and Youth Work and is certified in EDI. Online: maggieblake.com.
