Gina Moxley

Gina Moxley, born in Cork in 1957, works in Irish theater as an actor, playwright, director and author. She studied fine art at the Crawford School of Art before applying for a design job with a Dublin theater company, which invited her to audition as an actor instead. Rough Magic commissioned her debut play, Danti-Dan, which won the Stewart Parker Trust Award, and Dog House followed in 1997. She has appeared mostly on stage, but also in Irish films and television, among them The Butcher Boy (1997), Moll Flanders (1996), and Game of Thrones. Her play The Patient Gloria was staged at the Abbey Theatre in 2018, and won her Fringe First and Herald Angel awards at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, while best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival went to How to Keep an Alien. Her writing also includes radio plays and short stories, and she was elected to Aosdána in 2020.