Orlagh Cassidy: New York based, Orlagh has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in Regional Theatres, garnering awards and recognition including a Drama Desk Award Nomination, Princess Grace Foundation Award, and Origin Theatre’s Industry Leader Award. She has graced the stages at The Nederlander Theater, The Walter Kerr Theatre, Circle in the Square, Manhattan Theatre Club, Manhattan Class Company, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Origin Theatre, Victory Gardens and The Public Theater.
Cassidy has had supporting roles in the feature films such as St. Vincent, Shirley, After Yang, The Pale Blue Eye and Oh Canada. She is a frequent guest-star/recurring player on primetime television and streaming platforms such as Chicago Med, Homeland, The Sinner, Gotham, Law and Order SVU, The Good Wife, The Loudest Voice, and Bull. She spent 11 years recurring on Guiding Light as District Attorney turned Mayor, Doris Wolf. She has also had a long career in commercials, on camera and voiceover. Known at her Alma Mater, S.U.N.Y. Purchase as the ‘Queen of dialects’, she has recorded over 125 audiobooks, winning over 25 Earphones Awards from Audiofile Magazine along with two Audie Award nominations.
As a writer, Cassidy wrote a one woman show, It’s In The Play, with Kate Lardner, which she performed as part of the Origin Theatre’s First Irish Festival in January 2023. Currently working on a collection of personal essays. Born in Washington D.C., she resides in New York City.
