| Donna
Orlando: Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Donna co-founded Orlando-Ward & Associates with Gregg Ward in 1997 and has an extensive background in using live, professional theater as a workplace training tool. As Co-Founder, Donna is one of the primary members of the Orlando-Ward & Associates creative team, performs in Orlando-Ward & Associates’ training programs and serves as the administrative head of the organization. She began her work in the field in 1986 as a specialist trainer for the NYPD. She has also enjoyed a successful career as a professional actor and director in New York, London and in the Edinburgh International Festival of The Arts. She has toured the UK numerous times in leading roles including ‘Night, Mother,’ ‘Desire Under The Elms,” and Arthur Miller’s Two Way Mirror. Her direction of the site-specific comedy Table for Two won her a prestigious Capital Award in the Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts in 1990. While living in the United Kingdom, Donna also founded The Arts Connexion, a professional performing arts training school for adults at which she taught acting and singing for several years. Donna is also the Executive Editor of the publishing company Winding Creek Press and a member of The National Organization of Female Executives. |
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