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Biography:
Height: 5' 4"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Donna was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five children. She attended Holy Innocents grade school in the neighborhood of Juniata Park, where she appeared in her first play as a wind-up doll in a second grade Christmas show.
Donna attended ballet classes on weekends and was a member of the school choir for four years, where she developed her soprano voice at an early age. Donna graduated an "A" student and went on to Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, where she dropped all that showbiz stuff and became a regular teenager.
She then went on to LaSalle University, where she majored in English and Communication Arts, and became interested in film and creative writing. On weekends, she ran around the city with her friends making super 8mm films and started writing short stories and screenplays in her spare time.
Then the showbiz bug brought her to New York City and the world-renowned American Academy of Dramatic Arts. AADA laid a solid foundation of craft and technique in many acting styles and instilled in her the love of theatre. Donna also attended HB Studio in New York City studying Shakespeare with Earle Hyman and Geoffrey Owens, as well as vocal production with George Axiltree.
Donna spent three years as a company member of Off Off Broadway's Metropolitan Playhouse, appearing in four productions and stage-managing the New York premiere of Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey's "Joanna's Husband and David's Wife."
For the VagaBOND Theater Company's Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, Donna co-wrote and starred in "Sisters" (with friend, fellow actress & American Academy alumna, Teresa Kelsey). While "Sisters" did not win a prize at the festival, it received enough notice to be invited to compete in the Naasica Theater Company's Ten Minute Play Contest in Paris, France, where it won first prize by a unanimous vote.
"Sisters/Soeurs" was produced by the Naasica Theater Company and directed by fellow American Academy grad, Paolo dePaola at "Le Grand Lavoir Graal" in Paris to an audience of appoximately 80 people including many members of the French Ministry of Culture. But that's not all: "Sisters" is scheduled to be brought back to the United States for Chicago's Franco-American Play Festival.
Donna has recently moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in showbiz.