O'Donnell is a television director and co-owner of the production company Jungle.
He wrote and directed the award-winning comedy series Review with Myles Barlow[1] – an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1.
[citation needed] O'Donnell also directed the acclaimed The Chaser's War on Everything and the TV series Laid which all aired on ABC1.
[2] In 2012 he wrote, produced and directed A Moody Christmas, a six-part drama series for the ABC TV.
[3] In 2013 he was a writer and director for The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, a sketch comedy show for the ABC TV.