Mary Young Leckie is a Canadian television producer and volunteer activist. She is a co-founder of Screen Door Productions, Inc. with Heather Haldane formerly Tapestry Films.
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Leckie gained an Honours degree in Film Studies from York University. She worked as a freelance Production Manager for International Clients including NBC, CBS, PBS, Disney and Tri-star as well as working on a variety of Independently produced Canadian film and television shows.[1]
In 1988 Leckie made her first feature, the award-winning film Where the Spirit Lives, starring Michelle St. John and Ann Marie McDonald.
Leckie has worked on some of Canada's best know dramas including mini-series The Arrow, Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, and Everest!, based on the 1982 climb that saw the first Canadians summit. Acclaimed movies of the week include Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story; Burn: The Robert Wraight Story, Prom Queen, Spirit Bear, and Screen Door's recent high profile production Shades of Black, based on the rise and fall of millionaire tycoon Conrad Black for CTV.[2]
Leckie turned her hand to hour long drama series with the highly acclaimed, short lived series MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives. Leckie was co-creator of MVP together with writer Kent Staines (Spirit Bear, Prom Queen).[3] MVP aired on CBC in Canada with record numbers in the 25-54 demographic. Picked up by Soapnet in the US and sold world-wide, Leckie's company is now in development with Lifetime, YTV, TVOntario, CITV and CBC on new scripted series and movies of the week. She is currently financing a movie on the life and love of Maude Lewis with Jean-Francois Pouliot (Le Grand Seduction) attached to helm with script from Sherry White. Also on the books is an edutainment series for Internet delivery aimed a 12-17 year students.
Mary Young Leckie served three consecutive terms as Director on the national board of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association (CFTPA). She served for four years on the board of the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Dance in Parkdale. Leckie has volunteered with Parkdale High Park's Romero House for Refugees for the past 18 years and holds the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for her volunteer work with the non-profit inner city dance company, with Romero House and with The Stephen Lewis Foundation for which she created a series of commercial Public Service Announcements to raise awareness of the plights of AIDS orphans in Africa including “The Disappearing” written and directed by her husband Keith Ross Leckie and produced by Screen Door.
Young Leckie is married to writer, director, novelist Keith Ross Leckie. She is the daughter of Roy Young of Harwood Ontario (1907–1999) and WW2 Veteran Lt. Constance Bond, CCS Unit 2,(1911–2003) and the mother of three children aged 17 to 25. She is an avid canoeist with roots in Toronto and the Kawarthas where her family have owned property since 1961.