DIANA DONNELLY
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| DIRECTING: | ||
| Twelfth Night (upcoming) | Director | Bard on the Beach (Mainstage) |
| Sexy Laundry (upcoming) | Director | Arts Club Theatre |
| The Tempest | Director | Studio 58 |
| The Doctor’s Dilemma | Director | Shaw Festival (Festival Stage) |
| The Russian Play | Director | Shaw Festival |
| Stars: Together | Assistant to the Creators | Crow’s Theatre; Dir: Chris Abraham/Zack Russell/Stars |
| Best of Dance and Music: Romeo and Juliet | Associate Director | Art of Time Ensemble (Harbourfront Centre); with Ravi Jain |
| *Far Away | Director | Shaw Festival |
| *The Orchard | Assistant Director | Shaw Festival; Dir: Ravi Jain |
| *The Hound of the Baskervilles | Assistant Director | Shaw Festival; Dir: Craig Hall |
| Walk Along the Shaw | Director | Secret Theatre |
| Essay | Director | Secret Theatre |
| City of Conversation | Director | Reading Series |
| Orlando | Assistant Director | National Theatre School; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Theatre Ontario Showcase 2017 | Director | National Theatre School (Young Centre) |
| * Neil Munro Director’s Internship | ||
| SELECTED THEATRE (ACTING): | ||
| Jesus Hopped the “A” Train | Mary Jane | Soulpepper; Dir: Weyni Mengesha |
| Sex | Margy LaMont | Shaw Festival; Dir: Peter Hinton |
| The Last Wife | Kate | Centaur Theatre: Dir: Eda Holmes |
| *Jerusalem | Dawn | Outside the March; Dir: Mitchell Cushman |
| Lear | Regan | Groundling Theatre; Dir: Graham Abbey |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Rose | Shaw Festival; Dir: Krista Jackson |
| An Octoroon | Dora | Shaw Festival; Dir: Peter Hinton |
| A Woman of No Importance | Mrs. Allonby | Shaw Festival; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Engaged | Minnie Symperson | Shaw Festival; Dir: Morris Panych |
| Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide | Maeve | Shaw Festival; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Arcadia | Hannah | Shaw Festival/Mirvish; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Private Lives | Amanda | Citadel Theatre; Dir: Bob Baker |
| August: Osage County | Karen Weston | Citadel Theatre; Dir: Bob Baker |
| Half an Hour | Lillian | Shaw Festival; Dir: Gina Wilkinson |
| East of Berlin (Tour) | Sarah | MTC/Touchstone/Theatre Network/Tarragon; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf | Honey | Soulpepper; Dir: Lazlo Marton |
| Over the River and Through the Woods | Caitlin | Segal Centre; Dir: Stephen Schipper |
| Top Girls (Remount) | Win/Janine/Waitress | Soulpepper; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| The Way of the World | Mrs. Fainall | Soulpepper/NAC; Dir: Peter Hinton |
| East of Berlin | Sarah | Tarragon Theatre; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| Top Girls | Win/Janine/Waitress | Soulpepper; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| The Shaughraun | Claire | Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; Dir: Andrew Paul |
| Arms and the Man | Raina | Shaw Festival; Dir: Jackie Maxwell |
| Love Among the Russians | Popova/Natasha | Shaw Festival; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Saint Joan | Joan | Theatre Calgary; Dir: Neil Munro |
| Major Barbara | Barbara | Shaw Festival; Dir: Joe Ziegler |
| Bus Stop | Elma | Shaw Festival; Dir: Jackie Maxwell |
| Harlequinade | Muriel | Shaw Festival; Dir: Neil Munro |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Cecily | Shaw Festival; Dir: Christopher Newton |
| Strawberries in January | Lea | Grand Theatre; Dir: Susan Ferley |
| The Royal Family | Miss Peake | Shaw Festival; Dir: Martha Henry |
| Diana of Dobson’s | Kitty | Shaw Festival; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Gwendolyn | Globe Theatre; Dir: Susan Ferley |
| As You Like It | Rosalind | Resurgence Theatre; Dir: Chris Abraham |
| Twelfth Night | Olivia | Resurgence Theatre; Dir: Chris Abraham |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena | Repercussion Tour; Dir: Jack Langedijk |
| Taming of the Shrew | Curtis | Repercussion Tour; Dir: Barbara Poggemiller |
| Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | Repercussion Tour; Dir: Jack Langedijk |
| *Dora Award for Outstanding Performance – Ensemble | ||
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TEACHING: |
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| Current Mentor for Professional Development for 3rd Year actors at the National Theatre School | ||
| Private audition coach
Teacher at the Shaw Theatre School (youth) Instructor: directing workshops for high-school teachers |
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| Instructor: acting workshops for elementary and high-school students | ||
| Instructor: acting class for adults (Soulpepper) | ||
| EDUCATION: Creative Arts Degree, Dawson College (1997), Graduate, National Theatre School (Acting, 2000) |
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| OTHER: | ||
| 2019 Finalist for Crow’s Theatre’s RBC Rising Star Emerging Director’s Prize.
Recipient of the Tony Van Bridge Award (Shaw Festival);
Actor in New Play Development Workshops (2000-present) in work by playwrights including Hannah Moscovitch (Tarragon), Jordan Tannahill (Stratford), Kate Hennig (Stratford), Lisa Codrington (Shaw) and Rosa Laborde (Tarragon); fluent in French. |
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