donella fox

Donella Fox is an Actor, Writer, Director & Acting Coach.

Played the role of Mira in the Light worker (SF) which has won over 14 awards including Best Film At Hollywood BLV Short film Festival - & play the role of Dolly in The Dolly Diaries, a podcast comedy drama series. and has completed Film training in directing, camera and editing.
www.donellafox.com

History
I have BA Hons in Dramatic Arts and ,Dip CH in Wordweaving & NLP. She began her acting training atGuernsey Youth Theatre under the watchful eye of Margaret McDonaugh MBE & Martin Cordall & was cast from the Islands children to play the role of May Le Page in the evacuation musical A La Perchoine. She went onto to feature as May Le Page on the CD of the musical also appearing on a BBC 2 Schools program about the evacuation. She was then cast by Director Jacques Robiolles as a young nymph witch in the film La Saga des Anglo Normandies also known as The Saga of the Channel Islands.

The States Of Guernsey awarded her a full living & tuition grant to go onto study ACTING at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was there she gained 2:1 BA Hons in Dramatic Arts. In 2006 she was accepted onto the Film Lab 2006-2007 program at The Actors Centre, London/ Skillset, where she attended a sequence of film masterclasses from professionals in the industry Suri Krishnamma, Ewan McGregor, Denis Lawson, Debbie Issit to name but a few. From there she went on to work for various London production companies & edit houses, still also performing on the London Fringe.

She was involved with the Feature Film- ill Manors by Plan B (Ben Drew) in it's earliest of stages. She also was pulled on board to cast Chase 'n' status featuring Plan B "Pieces" Music video, along side Ben and held the casting at The Camden Studios, London. Donella is credited on IMBD for ill Manors as a Casting Assistant, in additional crew.

In 2012 I wrote “Firefly” a one act play that was accepted & performed at Stratford Theatre Royal East as part of Rikki Beadle Blair’s Open Stage/ Angelic Tales Festival. “I’d very much like to see what Ms Fox comes up with next – ‘Firefly‘ is a remarkable achievement for a new writer.” Review for Firefly from Londoneer. March 2012.

In 2014 my short vertical film “Time” I shot on an iPhone as an experiment, was picked up by litro.co.uk who released it alongside Kay (Kate Tempest) 10 other writers/artists/filmmakers on Litro TV.

In July 2015 I set up film company Loka Films collaborating with artists from a broad spectrum of the arts in a creative all inclusive environment. In May 2018 I set up The Shoreditch Collective which has an emphasis on promoting independent work.I wrote & produced 12 monthly Audio Episodes of comedy/drama The Dolly Diaries in the absence of current film funding for the feature film Venus Moon.

In 2016 she played Officer Sue, Girl Dem at The Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly London - New writing season. Some of more of her acting & writing credits include; “Fallen Angels”, inspired by the Radiohead, OK Computer Album, Bretton Hall & at the Sheffield Octagon. “Bev & The Dragon”, at The Rose Theatre, London, Embankment. “Firefly” at Stratford Theatre Royal, East, Open Stage/Angelic Tales Festival, “Echoes’ at The Hospital Club. “Catch the Falling Leaves” at The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone and Venus Moon (Script accelerator) at Park Theatre, Finsbury Park.

Donella is in pre-production with her first Feature Film