Rick Boland
 Actor, writer and director Rick Boland has been involved with theatre since the 1970s. He has worked with the Newfoundland Travelling Theatre Company, the Mummer's Troupe, and was a founding member of Rising Tide Theatre. In 1980 Rick, along with Mary Walsh developed the RCA theatre company with the Resource Centre for the Arts, where he created and performed in productions including High Steel and Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With.
His theatre project highlights include the development of Rising Tide Theatre’s Young Company which toured socially relevant theatre in schools throughout the province. And in 1991 he began research and development on what would grow into the highly successful Trinity Pageant and Summer in the Bight Festival, acclaimed as a premier theatrical destination in the province.
Rick Boland has numerous film and television appearances to his credit, including CBC Television’s Up at Ours, Tales from Pigeon Inlet, Yesterday’s Heroes and in recent years he played the role of Phose Furey in Hatching Matching and Dispatching.
His film credits include: Finding Mary March, The Divine Ryans, Extraordinary Visitor, The Breadmaker, The Bingo Robbers, The Wall, and Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With. He recently played the mayor of Gander in the made-for-TV movie Diverted.
Along with Mary Walsh, Rick is Artistic Associate of CornerBoys – a company that presents theatrical presentation and interactive interpretation of historic sites such as the Quidi Vidi Battery and Commissariat House. They are currently working on the new play: Fort McMoney.
Rick’s lifetime contribution to the cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador is evident by his dedication to the artistic expression and interpretation of our vast and rich cultural heritage.
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