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 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, 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

Moxley lives in Kilmainham, Dublin.^[13]