Therese Plaehn

Therese Plaehn

Therese Plaehn grew up in Scituate, MA. Recent credits include the TV series’ New Amsterdam and Proven Innocent and playing Aimee Blake in the Broadway National Tour of The Humans. Other credits include: Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles. Other N.Y. theater: A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (after David Foster Wallace) (The Public Theater, Chocolate Factory director Daniel Fish), Family Play (1979– Present) (New Ohio / CollaborationTown, director Lee Sunday Evans), title role in Anna Christie (The Wild Project, director Peter Richards). Regional: Our Town (Emily, Huntington Theatre, director David Cromer), Crimes of the Heart (Lenny, TheatreWorks, Silicon Valley, director Giovanna Sardelli), Paradise Lost (Pearl, American Repertory Theater, director Daniel Fish), and summers at Gloucester Stage and Chester Theatre. Other TV: Mr. Robot, Blue Bloods, American Odyssey, and Onion News Network.


Therese received her MFA from the American Repertory Theater’s program with the Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard. She holds an EU passport through Irish citizenship. In addition to acting, she writes and produces with Pretty Good Friends, a comedy company.