Donna Weinsting is living her dream. As a little girl she always knew she wanted to be an actor, and now she has worked with most of the professional theatres in St. Louis. Performances are exciting and gratifying but the rehearsal process and feeling a production come together is equally thrilling. Theatre has provided personal satisfaction and a plethora of creative, talented friends for which she is eternally grateful. Donna has been nominated twice for a Kevin Kline Award for outstanding lead actress in a play, 'night, Mother for Stray Dog Theatre and From Door to Door for New Jewish Theatre. She was thrilled to actually receive the Kevin Kline for her performance in From Door to Door in 2006. Donna loves being in theatre but her crowning achievement is her long and lasting marriage to her high school sweetheart, Mike, and her 2 children and 5 grandchildren.
Kevin Kline Award Wins
2007: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: From Door to Door (The New Jewish Theatre)
Kevin Kline Award Nominations
2009: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: ‘night Mother (Stray Dog Theatre)
10 Questions:
1. What is your favorite theatrical memory?
Hands down it was winning my Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play. I was flabbergasted and thrilled.
2. When did you know you were going in to the theatre?
I honestly don’t remember a time when I wanted to do anything else. It seemed inevitable.
3. What does St. Louis Theatre mean to you?
It is ever-expanding and ever-changing my life. It fills me with pride whenever I see one of our many wonderful performances.
4. What’s in your fridge right now?
What isn’t would be a better question. I always have something I can throw together in case a bus breaks down in front of the house.
5. What was the first car you drove?
Oh dear God! It was a 1957 black DeSoto and the breaks went out one day in rush hour traffic downtown.
6. What’s the last book you read?
Tick Tock by James Patterson.
7. What’s your favorite St. Louis restaurant?
Citizen Kane’s for steak and the OC for burgers and drinks.
8. If you weren’t in the theatre, what would you be doing?
Making everyone else’s life miserable because I would be miserable.
9. What is the most played song or artist on your iPod?
Right now it’s “The Music That Makes Me Dance” by Barbra Streisand because I’m learning it for a cabaret.
10. What is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
Eating a Snickers bar while reading a new diet book.