Colin Donnell

“Being at the show, watching people do what they do so well, hearing a full orchestra, and hearing beautiful music? There's nothing better.”

“I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.”

“Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!”

“In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.”

“I would be so happy to be back on 'Arrow' or on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' in whatever capacity.”

“I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage' and saw that there was an audition for another project going on at the same time. It was called 'Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver.'”

“I love the city of Chicago. They are so welcoming to the shows that shoot here.”

“My SAG card, the first TV job that I ever had was 'Pan Am' as a reporter. But that may not be entirely true. I did some motion capture work, doing reshoots on a video game.”

“I had a wonderful home life. My parents are the ultimate, wonderful supporters, so there was never a moment where I felt like I had to get away.”

“I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.”

“I like to pick out a certain part of each show I'm in and I watch it when I'm not onstage or in my dressing room. I'll go down to the stage and watch that part of the show each night.”

“I'm from St. Louis and grew up going to The Muny.”

“I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.”

“My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.”

“The 'Arrow' thing happened really quickly.”

“We all have friends and family who see one path for us, and we go a different path, and it's not necessarily what they would have wanted.”

“When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.”

“I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.”

“I drove my mother crazy because I'd juggle the apples in the fruit bowl and take a bite out of one or two.”

“You can't beat New York for food.”