Gina Moxley

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Gina Moxley

M.Phil.
Born1957 (age 64–65)
Cork, Ireland
Occupationplaywright, actress, author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIrish
Alma materCrawford School of Art
Trinity College, Dublin
Period1995–present
Subjectfeminism, childhood
Notable worksDanti-Dan
Dog House
The Patient Gloria
Notable awardsStewart Parker Trust Award (1996)
Years active1995–present

Gina Moxley (born 1957) is an Irish playwright, director and actress.[1][2][3] She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.[4][5]

Early life[]

Moxley was born in Cork in 1957.

Career[]

Moxley studied fine art at Crawford School of Art. She applied for a job as a designer with a theatre company in Dublin, who then invited her to audition to act instead.

Her debut play, Danti-Dan (1995) was commissioned by the Rough Magic Theatre Company and won the Stewart Parker Trust Award.[6] In 1997 she followed it with Dog House, a one-actor play about the abuse of a teenager.[7]

Moxley attending the creative writing course at the Oscar Wilde Centre and received an M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in 2006.[8]

In 2014, How to Keep an Alien won best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival.[9]

In 2018, her play The Patient Gloria, based on the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, was staged at the Abbey Theatre.[10][11] At the she won Fringe First and Herald Angel awards for the play.[12]

As an actress, she has mostly appeared on stage, but has also appeared on several films and TV shows produced in Ireland, including Game of Thrones, The Butcher Boy, Titanic: Blood and Steel, This Is My Father and Moll Flanders (1996).[13][14][15] She has also written radio plays and short stories,[16] and contributed a chapter to the serial novel Yeats is Dead!.[17][18]

Moxley was elected to Aosdána in 2020.[19]

Personal life[]

Moxley lives in Kilmainham, Dublin.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Kelly, Sonya; Stapleton, Noni; McAuliffe, Margaret (April 17, 2017). The Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350041479 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "This Much I Know: Gina Moxley". Irish Examiner. September 28, 2014.
  3. ^ "Moxley, Gina | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  4. ^ McGarry, Patsy. "Twelve artists elected to Aosdána". The Irish Times.
  5. ^ "Gina Moxley".
  6. ^ O'Toole, Fintan (January 6, 2003). Critical Moments: Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781904505037 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Dance hall days and other stories". The Irish Times.
  8. ^ "TCD's Oscar Wilde Centre Celebrates 10-years of Creative Writing with series of Trinity Readings". Trinity News and Events. April 3, 2008.
  9. ^ "Gina Moxley". kibo2.
  10. ^ Rooney, Jini. "BWW Review: THE PATIENT GLORIA at The Abbey Theatre". BroadwayWorld.com.
  11. ^ a b Barter, Pavel. "Gina Moxley, forever raising hell" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  12. ^ Falvey, Deirdre. "Edinburgh Fringe: 'We're getting a city bus tour to make a show of ourselves!'". The Irish Times.
  13. ^ "Gina Moxley". IMDb.
  14. ^ "VIVI - the more you know the more you see".
  15. ^ McLoone, Martin (July 25, 2019). Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781838716424 – via Google Books.
  16. ^ Meade, Declan (January 6, 2008). Let's be Alone Together: An Anthology of New Short Stories. Stinging Fly. ISBN 9781906539023 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ O'Connor, Joseph (March 8, 2010). Yeats Is Dead. Random House. ISBN 9781407091600 – via Google Books.
  18. ^ https://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=30551
  19. ^ O’Donoghue, Denise (October 14, 2020). "Meet the 12 new members of elite artist association Aosdána". Irish Examiner.

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