Emily Cass McDonnell is happy to be returning to Actors Theatre after appearing in Sam Shepard's True West, directed by Adam Rapp. Some recent or favorite New York theatre credits include Annie Baker's The Antipodes (Signature Theatre), Tin Cat Shoes (Club Thumb), Mercury Fur (The New Group), collaboration with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in Grasses of a Thousand Colors (The Public Theater and Royal Court in London ) and The Master Builder, and Richard Maxwell's Ode to the Man Who Knells. McDonnell is particularly proud of her work with the late Denis Johnson in Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames and Des Moines. Her upcoming film credits include the Peter Hedges film Ben is Back and Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Noah Baumbach Project for Netflix. Past film credits include The Man in the Woods, Ricki and the Flash, A Master Builder and Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce for HBO.