Edmund Donovan

Actor · Crew· Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

Edmund Donovan (born August 24, 1990) is an American theatre, film, and television actor.

Donovan won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Obie Award in 2020 for his role as Joe in Greater Clements by Samuel D. Hunter. He received a Drama Desk Award nomination in 2019 for his role in Lewiston/Clarkston, another play by Hunter. His television credits include Hightown, Betty, High Fidelity, and Orange Is the New Black. He played Christopher in the 2015 film Akron, which won numerous awards at LGBT film festivals that year. In 2021, Donovan played Jason in Second Stage Theatre's production of Lynn Nottage's Clyde's.

He graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts in 2012 with a BFA in acting. In 2017, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.