Background

Gina Moxley was born in 1957 in Cork, Ireland. She is the eldest of four children.

Education

Gina Moxley studied fine art and painting at the Crawford School of Art.

Career

Gina Moxley has acted for both stage and film. She was an actress in films, including Clash of the Ash (1987); Joyriders (1989); Hear My Song (1991); The Family (1994); Moll Flanders (1996); Snakes and Ladders (1996); The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (1996); The Butcher Boy (1997); This Is My Father (1998); Glorious Fred (1999); and Saltwater (2000). In Game of Thrones, she plays the role of an old woman prisoner. She joined the cast as a guest star in the second season.

She has written for The Hidden Basement Comedy Show, Hidden Agenda, and Sunday Miscellany. In 1992 she received a commission from Rough Magic Theatre Company for Dunn-Dan, which was produced by the company in 1995 at the Protect Arts Centre, Dublin, and the Hampstead Theatre, London. Danti-Dan won the Stewart Parker Award in 1996. Her play Dog house was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre and was presented at the Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997.

In 1998, Tospon and Snare Drums, based on the dance-hall culture of the 1950s and written in collaboration with the choreographer David Bolger, was an Abbey Theatre/Cois Cam co-production and premiered at the Peacock Theatre. Tea Set was presented as part of Fishamble's Y2K Festival of six new plays in February 2000.

More plays for stage and radio followed, the most recent being The Crumb Trail for Pan Pan Theatre with whom she has performed extensively. Despite being a reluctant writer she’s also published some short stories. Recently she has begun to direct for the theatre and her most recent production, How to Keep an Alien, won the best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival.

She was Fringe Lab Dramaturg for Dublin Fringe in 2013 and Irish Patron Playwright at New Plays from Europe Biennale, Wiesbaden, Germany from 2010 to 2014.

Achievements

• Gina Moxley is best known for her play Dog House. Her work receives high praise from critics and obtained several awards.

Works

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• book

  • Cuba & Dog House: And Dog House

    (Two more plays for young people in Faber's Connections se...)

    2000
  • Danti-Dan 1999

• movie

  • Moll Flanders

    (The unwavering hope and determination of a poverty-strick...)

    1996
  • The Butcher Boy

    (A dark journey into the mind of a troubled Irish boy whos...)

    1997
  • This is My Father 1998

References

• Contemporary Authors
  2011
• The Page of Gina Moxley on Twitter