DEIRDRE O’CONNELL is a Tony Award-winning theater actress for her performance as / in Dana H. She most recently starred in Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination); the title role in Becky Nurse of Salem at Lincoln Center. Other favorite theatre includes: Corsicana by Will Arbery; Before The Meeting by Adam Bock (Williamstown Theater Festival); Fulfillment Center by Abe Koogler (Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations), Little Children Dream of God by Jeff Augustin, and By the Water by Sharyn Rothstein (Lortel nomination, Manhattan Theatre Club); Terminus by Gabriel Jason Dean (NYTW); The Way West by Mona Mansour and Thinner Than Water by Melissa Ross (Labyrinth); Judy by Max Posner (Page 73); Scarcity by Lucy Thurber (Rattlestick); The Vandal by Hamish Linklater (Flea); Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker (Obie and Drama Desk Awards, Playwrights Horizons); In the Wake by Lisa Kron (Los Angeles Ovation Award, Richard Seff Actors’ Equity Award, Lortel nomination, Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Public Theater). Recent films include A24’s Eddington, opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, Diane, Lez Bomb, I Am a Seagull, The Boy Downstairs, Gabriel, Synecdoche, NY, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. TV includes roles on HBO’s “The Penguin” opposite Colin Farrell (Emmy Nomination, Critics Choice nomination, Gold Derby nomination), as well as “The Beast In Me,” “The Better Sister,” “The Big Door Prize,” “Outer Range,” “One Dollar,” “The Path,” “The Affair,” and “Nurse Jackie”. Didi was the recipient of the New York Drama Critics Special Citation for her work in Dana H. as well as an Outer Circle Award, Los Angeles Critics Circle Award, and an Ovation Award. She also has an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance and a Lilly Award. Deirdre was most recently onstage in NY’s Central Park playing the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet for The Public Theater.
