Her third Dora Award, in 2007, was for her performance as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending. Ms McKenna won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in the title role of Shaw's Saint Joan (Theatre Plus, 1991) and a second in 1998 for outstanding direction of Fugard's Valley Song.
Her long and distinguished association with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario began in 1982, when she joined Shakespeare 3 Company, as the Festival's Young Company was then called, appearing as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and as Diana in All's Well That Ends Well. She made her professional acting debut the same year at the Blyth Festival, appearing in This Foreign Land, Child by James Nichol and The Death of the Donnellys. She spent one year at the University of Toronto before attending the National Theatre School in Montreal until 1979. Seana McKenna was raised in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke and in nearby Port Credit. (All photos courtesy of Stratford Festival, all production photos by David Hou except when noted)
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