Ellen Dolan has been a LUCKY working actress for 37 years, primarily in television. Her debut was as Maureen Bauer on Guiding Light, 1982- 1986. The next three years were full of several Made for TV movies (remember those?) and various guest spots on various series. In 1989 she accepted a role on As the World Turns and played Policewoman, Margo Hughes for the next 20 years, until the end of the show.
Her stage credits include: Katrin in Mother Courage at Milwaukee Rep., Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Virginia Stage Co., May in How the Other Half Loves at Pennsylvania Stage Co., and Clelia in The Nerd at Capital Rep. She was a founding member of The Studio Three Group and a member of The Workshop Theater Group. With them, she has starred in Graceland, which went on to the New York Fringe Festival, Pineapple and Henry, Intellectuals and a premier production of Paul Weidner’s translation of Tartuffe. Off Broadway: Where the Truth Lies at The Irish Rep., Sophistry at Samuel Beckett Theater, and My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Ellen’s swan song to the stage was playing Truvy in Cape May Stages production of Steel Magnolias. Then she began to write.