Maura Halloran is an award-winning Canadian actor and writer. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, was an Associate Artist with The Cutting Ball Theatre (San Francisco), and is a member of The United Solo Academy (New York).

During her time in the Bay, Maura worked with CalShakes, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Central Works, The Cutting Ball Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, DIVAfest/Exit Theare, No Nude Men, Tides Theater, Palo Alto Players, Salon San Carlos, SF Theatre Pub, SF Olympians, the Women in Solodarity Festival, Solo Sundays, One Minute Play Festival, Bay One Acts Festival, and the National Steinbeck Festival. She has also co-created and performed installation and performance pieces for WE Players on Alcatraz, SF Institute for Possibility, SF MOMA, The Rumpus, Lost Horizon Night Market, and the ChatRoulette Show.

Elsewhere, Maura has performed in Vancouver with Blackbird Theatre, Seven Tyrants Theatre, United Players, and Magnetic North Festival (Theatre Conspiracy/HIVE 2); in Calgary with Morpheus Theatre; in Brno, CZ with the Setkani/Encounter Festival, and she toured her award-winning solo show, PUSSY, from San Francisco to London, New York, and Seattle.

Maura was recently among 23 writers chosen from over 3200 submissions for the CBC Poetry Prize Longlist 2025.