Nick O'donnell

Pelham Memorial High School

Class of 1993

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Nick O'donnell - Class of 1993 - Pelham Memorial High School

First Name	Nick
Last Name	O'donnell
Graduation Year	Class of 1993
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	UT
Country	United States
Occupation	Actor & Psychology PhD Student
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Here's one. I had a crush on a girl named Brooke in 7th or 8th Grade. But I was an immature jr. high boy about it. I told some kids that we were â€œgoing outâ€ but this was not at all the case. I had barely talked to her. They asked me why they hadnâ€™t seen us together and I said that Brooke and I wanted to â€œkeep it a secretâ€ (a wishful fantasy). Well, one day the whole class was sitting at desks in the gym, about to take a standardized test. Brooke comes in and makes her way across the gym. All the kids Iâ€™d been talking to start jeering her and trying to get her to admit that she liked me. Oh no. It got more and more intense and other kids in the class started joining it. She was teased mercilessly for several minutes in front of the whole class. I just wanted to pretend that she was my girlfriend. But I was a stupid 12-year old boy and my fantasy turned into a nightmare, for me and poor innocent Brooke. I think I figured out someone else to have a crush on after that. I was sure Brooke would never talk to me again after that ambus...(read more)
About Me	Oh boy. I moved from Pelham 1 month into 9th grade and did high school at a Boston-area prep school. It was all boys and we had to a wear jacket and tie every day. Then I went to a liberal arts college in MN called Carleton and loved it. I majored in Psychology, but I really threw myself into theater. I played 5-6 leading roles each year and met my wife Sydney in a student-run Summer Stock company there. (Sydney grew up in Chelsea, Manhattan and is now a theater history professor here in Utah) I graduated and made a meager living on stages in Minneapolis & Seattle as an actor for about 11 years. Then Sydney moved us to Utah, I tackled stage 3 colon cancer and I became a father, all in the same 18-month period. Life changed. Outside of that period Iâ€™ve acted in professional theaters here in Salt Lake City, but this townâ€™s not big enough to supply me with 12 months of work a year. So I flew back east to write a walking guidebook to NYC and worked as a part-time graphic designer for 3 years. I recently reconnected with my Psych roots from college and started in a Developmental PhD program here at the University of Utah, studying storytelling and moral development. Iâ€™ll become a father again in May, but I wonâ&eur...(read more)