Kyle Donnelly

office: Galbraith Hall 303
email: kedonnelly@ucsd.edu

Biography

KYLE DONNELLY (Director) most recently directed Well by Lisa Kron at Arena Stage in Washington, DC where she has had a long association, having been Associate Artistic Director from 1992 to 1998 and directed such productions as She Loves Me, Born Yesterday, Tom Walker, The Women, Lovers and Executioners, The Miser, Molly Sweeney, A Small World, Dancing at Lughnasa (winner of Helen Hayes Award for Best Production), Summer and Smoke, A Month in the Country, The School for Wives, Misalliance, Polk County (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Musical) and others. She directed the American premiere of Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do! for Roundabout Theatre and worked at Williamstown Theatre Festival (Philadelphia, Here I Come!), Goodman Theatre (The Rover, Dancing at Lughnasa), Steppenwolf Theatre (Molly Sweeney), Old Globe (Orson's Shadow, Midsummer), Huntington Theatre (Hyde Park, Aristocrats, Little Foxes), American Conservatory Theatre and Seattle Repertory (Constant Wife), McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Repertory (Polk County), State of the Union (Ford's Theatre) as well as Actor's Theatre of Louisville, A Contemporary Theatre and many other regional theaters around the country. She founded her own acting studio called the Actors' Center in Chicago which was a leading training center for actors in that city. She is a member of SSDC and winner of the Alan Schneider award from TCG.