Neil McGarry

Neil McGarry - Neil comes from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and has been a working actor for over 35 years with performances in theatre, film, television and radio.

Neil founded The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company in the Autumn of 2012 and was Artistic Director until June of 2016.

The BCSC production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was born in 2013, (Best Of Boston - 2013) and was named “IRNE Best Solo Performance of 2014” by the Independent Reviewers of New England. This performance toured across the northeast United States for five years. In 2018 and 2019, Neil and A Christmas Carol traversed Europe, touring to Innsbruck, Dublin, London, Bath, Basel, Geneva, Prague, Co. Leitrim, and in Bruneck, Italy.

For the BCSC: A Christmas Carol - 2014 IRNE Award “Best Solo Performance”, 2013 “Best Of Boston”, Burbage - Cape Cod Times “2013 Critics Favorites” & “Best Play”, & New York Int. Fringe Festival, Hamlet (Hamlet), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Macbeth (MacDuff), Hamlet (directed, Ghost/Player King), The Winter’s Tale (Leontes) & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed, Theseus/Oberon).

Favorite roles include: Dead Man’s Cellphone Lyric Stage Co., Boston, Doubt (Father Flynn) Worcester Foothills Theatre, My Name Is Asher Lev (Aryeh, Jacob Kahn) Cape Rep, Of Mice And Men (George) New Rep On Tour, Hamlet (Hamlet) BCSC, Burbage (Richard Burbage) BCSC - Boston Playwrights’ Theatre & NY Int Fringe, The Winter’s Tale (Leontes) BCSC & NY Classical Theatre, Julius Caesar (Brutus) Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Romeo & Juliet (Romeo) Seacoast Rep, NH, Measure For Measure (the Duke), Love’s Labour’s Lost (King of Navarre), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Merchant of Venice (Antonio), and The Miser (Cleante) - all at the Publick Theatre, Boston.

Film and television credits include: Sisters, Hill Of Vision (Resilient), Frank The Bastard, Edge Of Darkness, The Proposal, Killing Dinner, Fall Apart, Absent Father, Bust, Stranger, and Stuff Stephanie In The Incinerator, PBS/American Experience: Alexander Hamilton, ABC TV’s All My Children, and Showtime’s Brotherhood.

His radio work includes: Seven titles (leads and featured roles) in the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre collection, all broadcast by National Public Radio and Voice of America.

Neil received his training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and SAG - AFTRA. He currently lives in the Italian Alps with his wife and three children.