Gina Moxley
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Gina Moxley | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) Cork, Ireland |
| Occupation | playwright, actress, author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Crawford School of Art Trinity College Dublin |
| Period | 1995–present |
| Subject | feminism, childhood |
| Years active | 1995–present |
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| Notable awards | Stewart Parker Trust Award (1996) |
Gina Moxley (born 1957) is an Irish playwright, director, author and actress.[1][2][3] She is a member of Aosdána, an Irish association of artists.[4]
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 Rough Magic and won the Stewart Parker Trust Award.[5] In 1996, she contributed the idea for the film Snakes and Ladders and also co-starred in it (alongside Pom Boyd) as one of the female leads.[6][7] In 1997 she followed her debut play with Dog House, a one-actor drama about the abuse of a teenager.[8]
Moxley attended the creative writing course at the Oscar Wilde Centre and received an M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in 2006.[9]
In 2014, How to Keep an Alien won best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival.[10]
In 2018, her play The Patient Gloria, based on the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, was staged at the Abbey Theatre.[11][12] At the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe she won Fringe First and Herald Angel awards for the play.[13]
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).[14][15][16] She has also written radio plays and short stories,[17] and contributed a chapter to the serial novel Yeats is Dead!.[18][19]
