That Theatre on Lower Abbey Street

Daniel J. O’Donnell is a Documentary Filmmaker, Playwright and Actor. He is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. He is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a current Member of The Actors Studio Playwright/Director’s Workshop. As a Documentary Filmmaker, he produced and directed Our Donegal Roots, which to date has had close to 70,000 views worldwide on YouTube. He directed, narrated and wrote the script for a documentary film about the founding of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, which has been an Official Selection and Award Winner at several International Film Festivals. As a Playwright, Mr. O’Donnell has written several one-act plays, including The Irish Play, The Family Riches and The Nicaraguans Are Ready. Time to Go, his first full-length play, has had well received Readings at HB Playwrights Theater in NYC and at The Actors Studio. His film and television work includes Homicide, opposite Robin Williams (NBC), and Major League II with Charlie Sheen (Warner Brothers). On stage, he has played lead roles in New York and regionally, including Jack Clitheroe in The Plough and the Stars (NJSF), Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Liberty Stage), Iago in Othello (Staten Island Shakespearean Theater), Teddy Lloyd in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (AADA). Most recently, Mr. O’Donnell played the cantankerous father, Tony Reilly, in Cape May Stage’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar.