Crawford M. Collins

Crawford M. Collins was born on May 25, 1987 in Plainfield, NJ to an Irish American father and a Scottish/Welsh American mother. She studied English and Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke College and graduated cum laude in 2009. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Margaret Davis Stitt Prize, a distinction honoring a member of the graduating class excelling in the dramatic arts.In 2010, she went on to complete a Master's degree, in a little under a year, from Drew University, studying dramatic literature and earning her certification as a teacher. During her time as a student she consistently performed in stage productions. A decided provocateur when it came to the arts, she often found herself playing dark, thwarted, and conflicted women...and men. With a taste for the unique and mysterious, she found some genuinely interesting gender-bending roles come her way, such as the late nineteenth-century Swedish army captain, Adolf in August Strindberg's classic work The Father, and as a water demon in Camilla Ammirati's In the Ebb, marking Crawford's off-Broadway debut at HERE Mainstage in New York.In 2011, she began booking consistent work in film, television, and theatre. She made her feature film debut in a fine LINE (2011 Best Picture, Luminaries Film Festival). 2012 was a particularly busy year; including her most notable leading role from the off-off Broadway revival of Sicks! An Evening with Six of the Most Notorious Women in History. Her portrayal of Queen Mary I aka "Bloody Mary" explored historically relevant events of the Tudor Dynasty, but with a darkly comedic delivery and was also featured in an article appearing in the arts section of The New York Post.From there, Crawford moved to the sassy role of Myrna Malone, a XXX talent manager in Joseph Samuel Wright's operatic play, Rise. She then performed the highly sought after role of Li'l Bit in Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning play, How I Learned to Drive.Consistently off-centered roles in the plays Far Away, The Father, The Bald Soprano and Rise; television appearances as convicted Russian spy, Cynthia Murphy on the BBC series, "Modern Spies" (2012), a sinister apparition on the Bio Channel series, "Celebrity Ghost Stories"; and her performance in the short film, "Blame" (2012) have only added to her mystique. "Blame" (2012) earned her a Luminaries Film Festival nomination for Best Actress. Show less «