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Gina Moxley

Gina Moxley
Born1957 (age 67–68)
Cork, Ireland
Occupationplaywright, actress, author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIrish
Alma materCrawford School of Art
Trinity College Dublin
Period1995–present
Subjectfeminism, childhood
Years active1995–present
Notable works
  • Danti-Dan
  • Dog House
  • The Patient Gloria
Notable awardsStewart Parker Trust Award (1996)

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

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Moxley was born in Cork in 1957.

Career

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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 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.[7][8] In 1997 she followed her debut play with Dog House, a one-actor drama about the abuse of a teenager.[9]

Moxley attended the creative writing course at the Oscar Wilde Centre and received an M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in 2006.[10]

In 2014, How to Keep an Alien won best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival.[11]

In 2018, her play The Patient Gloria, based on the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, was staged at the Abbey Theatre.[12][13] At the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe she won Fringe First and Herald Angel awards for the play.[14]

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).[15][16][17] She has also written radio plays and short stories,[18] and contributed a chapter to the serial novel Yeats is Dead!.[19][20]

Moxley was elected to Aosdána in 2020.[21]

Personal life

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Moxley lives in Kilmainham, Dublin.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Kelly, Sonya; Stapleton, Noni; McAuliffe, Margaret (17 April 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. 28 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Moxley, Gina | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  4. ^ McGarry, Patsy. "Twelve artists elected to Aosdána". The Irish Times.
  5. ^ "Gina Moxley". 5 December 2022.
  6. ^ O'Toole, Fintan (6 January 2003). Critical Moments: Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781904505037 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "FILMS". trishmcadam.com. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  8. ^ "SNAKES AND LADDERS". trishmcadam.com. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Dance hall days and other stories". The Irish Times.
  10. ^ "TCD's Oscar Wilde Centre Celebrates 10-years of Creative Writing with series of Trinity Readings". Trinity News and Events. 3 April 2008.
  11. ^ "Gina Moxley". kibo2.
  12. ^ Rooney, Jini. "BWW Review: THE PATIENT GLORIA at The Abbey Theatre". BroadwayWorld.com.
  13. ^ a b Barter, Pavel (3 September 2023). "Gina Moxley, forever raising hell" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  14. ^ Falvey, Deirdre. "Edinburgh Fringe: 'We're getting a city bus tour to make a show of ourselves!'". The Irish Times.
  15. ^ "Gina Moxley". IMDb.
  16. ^ "VIVI - the more you know the more you see".
  17. ^ McLoone, Martin (25 July 2019). Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781838716424 – via Google Books.
  18. ^ Meade, Declan (6 January 2008). Let's be Alone Together: An Anthology of New Short Stories. Stinging Fly. ISBN 9781906539023 – via Google Books.
  19. ^ O'Connor, Joseph (8 March 2010). Yeats Is Dead. Random House. ISBN 9781407091600 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ "Gina Moxley". Playography Ireland. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  21. ^ O’Donoghue, Denise (14 October 2020). "Meet the 12 new members of elite artist association Aosdána". Irish Examiner.
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