Trivia

Holds an MFA in Acting from University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

During Hurricane Katrina, she co-created/co-managed "Lake Providence Help Blog" (featured on BBC's "The World" and NPR's "Talk of the Nation"), one of the first successful online crowdfunding initiatives for disaster relief.

Ms. Donahoe is the founder of WOMENSPEAK Training (WST). She is on faculty at The Women's Campaign School at Yale, and has been a featured speaker in the US and internationally on the topic of Women's Voices in Public Spaces, and Building Female+ Share of Voice within organizations.

"Helen Hayes Award" winner, 2004.

She attended Vassar College, with the intention of studying Classics. Instead, she double-majored in Psychology and Drama.

Holds an AB in Psychology and Drama from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Accepted into the prestigious UCSD graduate acting program, she earned her Master of Fine Arts after working in a wide range of productions there, including "Bash," "Mourning Becomes Electra," "Three Sisters" (Playbill Online Award), "The Marriage of Figaro," among others.

Graduated high school from The Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, where she studied Latin and Ancient Greek.

Co-founder/producer Apparition Productions, NYC.

2016 Obie - Performance Award - for "The Christians" at Playwrights Horizons, NYC.

A native of Lake Providence, Louisiana.

Nomination - 2017 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for "Mary Jane" at Yale Rep in New Haven, CT.

Served as 2017 Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama in New Haven, CT.