Emily Donahoe is an American actress, writer and producer.

Education

Donahoe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely foll ...

and a Master of Fine Arts from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

Career

She won a

Helen Hayes Award The Helen Hayes Awards are theater awards recognizing excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are named in tribute of Helen Hayes, who is also known as the "First Lady of American Theatre." They ar ...

in 2004 in the category Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play, for her performance in ''Shakespeare in Hollywood'' at the Arena Stage. In 2016 she won an Obie Award for her performance in ''The Christians'' by

Lucas Hnath Lucas Hnath ( ) is an American playwright. He won the 2016 Obie Award for excellence in playwriting for his plays ''Red Speedo'' and ''The Christians''. He also won a Whiting Award. Biography Hnath grew up in Orlando, Florida. He moved to New Yor ...

. She appeared in ''The Christians'' as Jenny at the Off-Broadway

Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. Under the ...

from August 28, 2015 to October 25, 2015. Donahue appeared in the

Amy Herzog Amy Herzog is an American playwright. Her play ''4000 Miles'', which ran Off-Broadway in 2011, was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her play ''Mary Jane'', which ran Off-Broadway in 2017, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Aw ...

play ''Mary Jane'' at the

Yale Repertory Theatre Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented stude ...

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, April 28, 2017 to May 20, 2017. She received a

Connecticut Critics Circle The Connecticut Critics Circle is an organization of reviewers, feature writers, columnists, and broadcasters throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. It was founded in 1990 Mission statement "To honor the actors, director ...

Award nomination for her performance as the title character. She was a 2017 Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama. She is the founder and principal of "WOMENSPEAK Training", a consultancy that specializes in training female speakers and in providing organizations and diversity partners with tools for "building female voice and visibility in the public arena" and "amplifying women's voices in order to drive both personal and organizational performance." She has been a featured speaker for the Women's Campaign School at Yale University.

Filmography

Film

Television

Personal life

She married

Michael O'Keefe Michael O'Keefe (born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr.; April 24, 1955) is an American actor, known for his roles as Danny Noonan in '' Caddyshack'', Ben Meechum in '' The Great Santini,'' for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for B ...

in 2011 and they have one child.

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* * * American stage actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American actresses Place of birth missing (living people) University of California, San Diego alumni Obie Award recipients {{US-theat-actor-stub