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Jun 16, 2001 · Among the most successful of Deirdre O'Connell's students, apart from Tom Hickey, were Gabriel Byrne and Johnny Murphy, and all three pay tribute to their teacher in Ronan O'Leary's...
O'Connell was born in the South Bronx district of New York City, one of five children whose parents were Irish immigrants. When she finished school, she pursued her interest in theatre studying first at Erwin Piscator 's Dramatic Workshop , New York City, and later at the Actors Studio run by Lee Strasberg .
O'Connell grew up in Massachusetts. She is the oldest of three children of Anne Ludlum, playwright and actress, and Thomas E. O'Connell, founding president of Berkshire Community College. She attended Taconic High School. [2] O'Connell enrolled at Antioch College in Ohio, but withdrew before graduating. [3]
YearTitleRole1987Nellie1988Shanda Gage1989Ella1990Mrs. HalseyMay 9, 2018 · Deirdre established an actor-training school in Dublin’s Pocket Theatre, teaching her students improvisational work, effective memories, and later directing them in small productions. It was all groundwork to create a permanent company of actors trained in the Stanislavski Method, her dream that was later realized as the Focus Theatre.
(O'Connell numbered Declan and Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy among her students.) The debut was Doris Lessing's ‘Play with a tiger’, which opened in autumn 1967 to poor audiences. However, by May 1970 ‘Hedda Gabler’ was running for twelve weeks.
Feb 19, 2020 · Eleanora Deirdre O'Connell was born to Irish immigrant parents on June 16th 1939 in the South Bronx district of New York City. One of five siblings, her father Michael J. O’Connell was born...
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Her future was promising and her decision to give up a New York career to open a school in the then impoverished, unsophisticated Ireland seemed quixotic, but her drive to teach was stronger than her drive to perform and she regarded moving to Ireland as returning home.
