| Gina Moxley | |
| Birth Date: | |
| Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
| Occupation: | playwright, actress, author |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Alma Mater: | Crawford School of Art Trinity College Dublin |
| Period: | 1995–present |
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| Subject: | feminism, childhood |
| Spouses: | --> |
| Partners: | --> |
| Awards: | Stewart Parker Trust Award (1996) |
| Years Active: | 1995–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]
Moxley was born in Cork in 1957.
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 attending 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, , 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]
Moxley lives in Kilmainham, Dublin.[13]