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<br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Acting</span><br>Broadway: <span style="font-style: italic;">33 Variations</span>. Off-Broadway: <span style="font-style: italic;">Queens Boulevard (the musical)</span> (Signature Theatre), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Attic</span> (Play Company), <span style="font-style: italic;">Great Expectations</span> (Theatreworks/Lucille Lortel), <span style="font-style: italic;">Deathbed</span> (McGinn-Cazale), <span style="font-style: italic;">Apparition</span> (Connelly), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hasty Heart</span> (Keen Company). Regional: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Wake</span> (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Rep), <span style="font-style: italic;">Shakespeare in Hollywood </span>(Arena Stage / 2004 Helen Hayes Award "Outstanding Supporting Actress"), <span style="font-style: italic;">Wintertime</span> (La Jolla Playhouse / "L.A. Times 'Critic's Choice'"), <span style="font-style: italic;">Honour</span> with Kathleen Chalfant & <span style="font-style: italic;">The Glass Menagerie</span> with Rita Moreno (both Berkeley Repetory Theatre), <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadelphia, Here I Come!</span> (Williamstown Theater Festival). Film/TV: <span style="font-style: italic;">Handsome Harry, National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, Zelimo, Weeki Wachi Girls, As The World Turns. </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Producing and Writing</span><br>Co-founder & theatrical/executive producer all projects Apparition Productions, NYC. Projects include Off-Broadway commercial productions of Anne Washburn's <span style="font-style: italic;">Apparition</span> (TimeOut NY Top Ten in 2005) and Mark Schultz's <span style="font-style: italic;">Deathbed</span>, associate production of The Civilian's <span style="font-style: italic;">(I am) Nobody's Lunch</span> at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ("First in Fringe" Award), and new play development workshops featuring writers Kyle Donnelly, Julia Edwards and Jordan Harrison. Collaborator/Writer for Tectonic Theater's <span style="font-style: italic;">33 Variations </span>(Broadway, 2009 with Jane Fonda) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Casa Cushman</span>. Films currently in pre-production include The Orestia Project, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lethe</span>, and an untitled Medea adaptation.<br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Other work</span><br>Ms. Donahoe is also the founder of WOMENSPEAK Training, a public communications training company that specializes in visibilty programs for women, with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to advocacy organizations . Her CD with TJ Walker "Fear No More: Exorcising Your Public Speaking Demons" and her chapter in "Podcasting Hacks: Tips and Tools for Blogging Out Loud" are both available through Amazon. She has been featured on Entrepreneur Goddess, and written articles for The Glass Hammer, an award-winning blog and online community created for women executives in finance, law, technology and big business.<br><br>She is proud to have co-created/co-managed "Lake Providence Help" during Hurricane Katrina (featured on BBC's "The World" and NPR's "Talk of the Nation"), an effort which raised over $20,000 in donations in four days for disaster relief. <br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Education</span><br>MFA - University of California, San Diego <br>BA - Vassar College.<br>