Broadway Stars Patti Murin and Colin Donnell Welcome Their First Child

Theater couple Colin Donnell and Patti Murin are parents! Cecily Philips Donnell was born on July 14. Murin shared a photo on Instagram on July 17.

 

 

 

 

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Meet Cecily Philips Donnell, born on July 14th. She’s strong as heck and ready to change the world, and we have never loved anything more in our lives. “Life is not the things that we do, it’s who we’re doing them with.”

A post shared by Pattimurin (@pattimurin) on Jul 17, 2020 at 9:28am PDT

The couple appears to have named their daughter after the character Cecily from the musical Fly By Night, in which Murin appeared in 2014 at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. The quote Murin included in her Instagram post is also from the show by Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick.

Donnell and Murin met in 2013 when they both starred in a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Delacorte Theater. They were married in 2015. Donnell has been seen on Broadway in Jersey Boys, Anything Goes and Violet. He also starred on NBC's Chicago Med. Murin's Broadway credits include Frozen, Lysistrata Jones and Xanadu.