KEVIN O'DONNELL

Kevin O’Donnell (title role in Britannicus) is a Boston native, who grew up on the South Shore and received his BFA in Literature and Creative Writing at Emerson College. Currently based in New York, his credits include The Hairy Ape at The Irish Repertory Theatre, and The Comedy of Errors off-off Broadway. Resident theatre roles include Laertes in Hamlet at Shakespeare & Company, Horatio in Hamlet at The Guthrie Theater, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal with Brian Bedford at The Mark Taper Forum, Gil/Jody in Thief River at Barrington Stage Company, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Skin of Our Teeth at Chautauqua Theatre Company. He played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet alongside dancers from the American Ballet Theatre as part of the Guggenheim Museum’s ‘Works in Process’ series. Films include Black Irish, Opa, Shaft, A Million Miles An Hour. Television: Comedy Central’s Strangers With Candy. Mr. O’Donnell is a graduate of The Juilliard School. His short play, No More Static was commissioned by The Guthrie Theater and produced at The Guthrie Lab, later included in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2004 for 3 or More Actors, published by Smith and Krause and PlayScripts.net. His original screenplay, Penance, was recently optioned by MCPFilms of Boston, and is scheduled to begin shooting in Massachusetts in the fall of 2007, with Mr. D’Donnell playing a starring role.

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