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Ann Russell trained with the late Deirdre O'Connell at the Focus Stanislavski Studio, where she worked extensively as an actor and director. She also spent some time at the Lee Strasberg Film and TV Institute in NYC and has an MA in Modern Drama from UCD.

Ann has a wide range of theatrical experience
ranging from Shakespeare to the works of O’Casey,
Synge, John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Arthur Miller.
At Focus she performed in such American classics
as All My Sons (Miller) Awake and Sing (Odets) and
Precious Sons (George Furth) as well as The Balcony (Genet) and The Secret Rapture (Hare).
Most recently Ann played Ivy in Tara Maria Lovett's new play The Tide at The New Theatre. A planned Irish tour had to be postponed due to Covid 19. Other recent theatre includes Risk Everything by Canadian Dramatist George F. Walker which had a run at The New Theatre and subsequently at The Viking in Clontarf, and Puffin's Nest by Oliver McQuillan (New Theatre).
She has also acted in comedies such as Moll, The
Chastitute (Gaiety +Irish tour) and Women on the
Verge of HRT (UK/Irish Tour) where she played in
major historic theatres throughout the UK. Other
theatre includes; Portia Coughlan (New Theatre),
Vampirella and the Company of Wolves (Project),
Dancing at Lughnasa (Punchbag, Galway), Reading
Turgenev (Meridian, Cork) Romeo and Juliet, Richard
11 and Elysium Nevada,nominated for an Irish Times
award 2010 (Bewley’s+UK/Irish tour).