Deirdre Donnelly
Deirdre’s previous work at the Abbey Theatre includes Bookworms (2010), Rites, In the Shadow of the Glen, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Scatterin’, The Whiteheaded Boy, Sceal Scealai Eile, Blood Wedding, The Gathering, The Vicar of Wakefield, Twelfth Night, Tarry Flynn, A Short Walk to the Sea, Catchpenny Twist, Epitaph Under Ether, The Well of the Saints, The Blue Macushla, Scenes from an Album, All My Sons, Not I, Too Late for Logic, Drama at Inish, She Stoops to Folly, Da, A Month in the Country, The Crucible, The Big House and An Ideal Husband. Deirdre trained at the Abbey School of Acting and was a member of the Abbey Company from 1972 – 1975. Other theatre work includes As You Like it, Thieves’ Carnival, Three Irish Comedies, Old Times, The J Arthur Maginnis Story, She Stoops to Conquer, Bedtime Story and The Scythe and the Sunset (Irish Theatre Company), Little Women, Agnes of God, Blithe Spirit, Aristocrats and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Gate Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (City Theatre, Hong Kong), Chapter Two (Olympia), Private Lives and Play It Again Sam (Gemini), Boesman and Lena (Field Day), A Delicate Balance (Focus), There Came a Gypsy Riding (Livin’ Dred), Moment (Tall Tales), Over the River and Through the Woods (Andrew’s Lane Theatre), Down Onto Blue and A Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic), for which she received an Irish Times Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Film and television credits include The Riordans, Painted Out, Farmers, Miracles and Miss Langan, The Spike, Molloy, The Body in Hume Street, Fair City, Glenroe, The Clinic and Legend (RTÉ), The Irish RM (RTÉ and Channel 4), The Hamster Wheel, Runway One and Ballykissangel (BBC), Criminal Conversation, Attracta (BAC Films), Fatal Lovers (Lapaca Films), The Fantasist (ITC Entertainment), Garage (Element Pictures) and Cracks (Scott-Free and Future Films). Radio work includes The Bitter Peach, Autumn Sunshine, Rotunda Blue and Say No to Shantonagh (BBC), A Grand Re-Union, Gentleman and Players, The Burning of Bridget Cleary, No Hate Going to Loss, The Lottery, Nomads, The Fishmonger’s Wife, Border Crossing, Moving Day, The Intimacy Incentive and Mountain Language (RTÉ).
