DONNA SORBELLO has worked in theatre for more than 25 years as a playwright, actress, and sometime director. As a playwright, her productions include Out Takes at Equity Library Theater at Lincoln Center and also at Foot of the Mountain Theatre (staged reading). Her teleplay Jenny’s Joy was one of three finalists for the WCVB Prime Time contest and won the Robert J. Pickering Award. Let Freedom Sing was performed on Cape Cod as part of the Women’s Peace and Justice Festival, and Salvation was presented in Hovey Players short plays festival. The Visit was in the Women On Top Festival and was also a finalist in the Hoevemeyer Competition in Connecticut, and Waiting For Willy Marshall Jones was part of the new play series at Priscilla Beach Theatre. The Educated had a production under A & P & D, and Over the Beach Wall was in the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Summer Festival. Gentlemen Husbandry was in the Boston Theater Marathon (and also published in the Marathon anthology of plays) and was a finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regional awards and was also produced by Image Theatre. Her plays Tom and Tennessee, Facades/Balances, and Reunion all had staged readings at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
As an actress, Ms. Sorbello has appeared in NYC, across the United States, and locally at many of the professional New England theatres, from the Huntington Theatre to smaller venues. She has had roles in plays by playwrights from Shakespeare (King Lear, The Tempest) to Williams (Glass Menagerie and Orpheus Descending, for which she won an IRNE Award) to Coward (Private Lives, Hay Fever) to more contemporary playwrights (Unexpected Man at Gloucester Stage). She was recently seen in the Boston Theater Marathon and as Ana in Clean House at New Century Theatre. She can be seen in the Ricky Gervais film Invention Of Lying as Jennifer Garner’s mother, and in Hachi and the independent film Mulberry Tree. She has taught for six years at BHCC after two years at both Boston University and Quincy College. She is a graduate of Emerson College (Dr. Tom Haas) and Boston University Masters in Playwriting Program (Derek Walcott and Kate Snodgrass), and she also trained and assisted with Nikos Psacharopoulos at Circle in the Square Workshop, NYC.