Daniel Hart Donoghue

Daniel Hart Donoghue is an American actor, screenwriter and director. Donoghue was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts and moved to Lowell, Massachusetts at the age of four where he lived with his parents, Daniel and Kathleen, and one brother, Brian. He is of Irish descent. Donoghue attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Limerick, Ireland where he studied literature and writing. In his twenties, Donoghue was an English Teacher on the reservation of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, in Dulce, New Mexico and then at Lowell High School in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. In his thirties, Donoghue began a career as a stage actor and writer. His first feature film screenplay, Bridie's Bind, which is based on Donoghue's award winning short film screenplay originally titled Gunmetal Rose, was well received critically, with numerous accolades including semifinal placement in the Nicholl Fellowship competition, and is scheduled for production in 2019 under its original title Gunmetal Rose.