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Donna Lynne Champlin

There’s pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

It’s very rare for me to come across a script for NYMF that is truly its own animal. That’s really what appealed to me about ‘Valueville.’ I still have my notes from when I first read it.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I’ve done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount of scripts and scores, and you rank them.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

If I could say anything to anybody out there thinking of creating their own content is to always, always, come from a place of authenticity.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

As an actor, you do feel very powerless… you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they’ve given you.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

To this day, I am so grateful I grew up in Rochester, New York.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

It’s very limited what women who look like me can do on television. You don’t often see ‘my type’ on television unless she’s a sidekick – certainly not a three-dimensional series regular who is pertinent to the plot.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

What I miss about the theater is the live experience.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

The schedule on TV is crazy. You could not work for two days but then work from 4 A.M. to 1 A.M. the next day. I definitely wanted more family time.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

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