Emily Donahoe

Obie Award winner (Lucas Hnath’s The Christians, Playwrights Horizons, NYC - world premiere); Helen Hayes Award winner (Ken Ludwig’s Shakespeare in Hollywood, Arena Stage, Washington D.C. - world premiere) 

Upcoming: Dead Ringers on Amazon Studios with Rachel Weisz, and Our Son opposite Luke Evans, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. Writer/Producer Draw Up and Stare, with Melissa Leo and Michael O’Keefe (Official Selection 2022 New York Shorts International Film Festival, "Special Jury Mention"; Official Selection 2022 Toronto Shorts International Film Festival; Official Selection Austin Revolution 2023)

Broadway: 33 Variations Off-Broadway: The Christians (Playwrights Horizons) (Obie Award, Performance); Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature Theatre); The Attic (Play Company); Great Expectations (Theatreworks); Deathbed, Apparition (Apparition Productions); The Hasty Heart (Keen Company) Regional: What the Jews Believe (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Mary Jane (Yale Rep) (Connecticut Critics Award Nomination); The Christians (Taper & Humana Festival/ATL); Maple and Vine (ACT); In the Wake (CTG/Berkeley Rep); Other Desert Cities, Shakespeare in Hollywood (both Arena Stage) (Helen Hayes Award, “Best Supporting Actress”); Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse); Honour, The Glass Menagerie with Rita Moreno (both Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Williamstown Theater Festival).

Film/TV: Atlantic City Story, Handsome Harry, Zelimo, Weeki Wachi Girls, How Do You Type A Broken Heart (“Best Actress” Nominations - Oxford Film Festival, Berkshire Film Festival, Oregon Short Film Festival),  American Rust,  FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Bull, High Maintenance, Law & Order: SVU, Homeland, As the World Turns.

Other: Emily was co-founder and executive producer for Apparition Productions, an Off-Broadway production company in New York City, from 2004-2008. The mission of the company was to give commercial production resources to plays and playwrights from under-represented voices in the space. Additionally, all actors were paid a living wage - an anomaly still for most Off-Broadway contracts. Productions included Anne Washburn’s Apparition (Top Ten Productions of 2004, TimeOut NY) and Mark Schultz’s Death Bed (“a coolly thoughtful and taut meditation” - New York Times). The company also served as associate producers on The Civilian’s production of (I am) Nobody’s Lunch), which won a “First in Fringe” award at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

She is the founder and executive producer for Exposition Girlfriend (EGP), a producing entity that cultivates creative, generative relationships between theater and film artists.  Recent/current projects include two short films that were made in Hunter, New York; Draw Up and Stare, starring local actors and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Academy Award nominee Michael O’Keefe, and an untitled adaptation of Moon for the Misbegotten. Both films were made with scant resources; the first on the SAG-AFTRA Ultra-Low Budget contract, and the second on the new SAG-AFTRA Micro-budget contract. In the fall of 2022, EGP produced new play development workshop/reading of FDR at War, written by Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost.

Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama in 2017. Current faculty member of the Women's Campaign School at Yale University. Founder/Principal of consultancies WOMENSPEAK Training and Talk Shop Training.

MFA: University of California, San Diego; AB: Vassar College, psychology and drama. Post-graduate certificate from Cornell University in Women and Leadership.