Colby Halloran

Colby Halloran was born and raised in Ann Arbor, the inspiration for The Northeast Corner. After graduating from UM, she and her husband ran a photography business in the Nickels Arcade. Her passion for theatre took her to graduate acting school at Wayne State University’s Hilberry Theatre, followed by further training at The Circle-in-theSquare Theatre School in New York City where she studied acting with Nikos Psacharopoulos, subsequently performing at his Williamstown Theatre Festival for several years. In 1979, she partnered with Charles Clubb at his Off-Off-Broadway The Theatre Exchange, a 50-seat loft theatre in Tribeca. After the death of Mr. Clubb in a tragic accident, Colby left the theatre and began writing. 

Several of her short stories have been published. Her as-yet unpublished Bicycle Boy involves the mysterious death of Mr. Clubb and the closing of The Theatre Exchange. Colby was based in New York City for 30 years. Over several periods of living and writing in Ireland and the UK, she developed lifelong friendships with an elderly farmer in Shropshire, the subject of her current book project Fos-y-Rhiew, and with a country doctor in North Wales, who inspired her as-yet-unpublished novel Locum Tenens. Since returning to Ann Arbor in 2006, she has been able to focus on her writing. Her one-act play Somewhere Between Lost and Found was performed in Ypsilanti, and her full-length play Bird of Passage premiered at The Bagaduce Theatre in Maine in 2019. Colby lives with her husband in Ann Arbor.