Emily Donahoe
Emily Donahoe is an American actress and producer.
Donahoe has an MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD and an AB from Vassar College. She married Michael O'Keefe in 2011 and they have one child.
She won a Helen Hayes Award in 2004 in the category Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play,
for her performance in Shakespeare in Hollywood at the Arena Stage.
In 2016 she won an Obie Award for her performance in The Christians by Lucas Hnath. She appeared in The Christians as Jenny at the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons from August 28, 2015 to October 25, 2015.
Donahue appeared in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, April 28, 2017 to May 20, 2017. She received a Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance as the title character.
She served as a 2017 Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama.
She is the founder and principal of "WOMENSPEAK Training", a consultancy that specializes in training female speakers and in providing organizations and diversity partners with tools for "building female voice and visibility in the public arena" and "amplifying women's voices in order to drive both personal and organizational performance." She serves as a featured speaker for The Women's Campaign School at Yale University.
