Mary Moynihan
Caption: Mary Moynihan, Director, Writer, Actor, Facilitator
Photographer: Steve Mc Cullagh
- Surname
- Moynihan
- First Name(s)
- Mary
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Email
- marypmoynihan@eircom.net
- Website
- http://www.smashingtimes.ie
- Job Type
- Director
- Job Type
- Playwright
- Job Type
- Actor
Mary Moynihan is a theatre director, writer, actor and facilitator.
- Eye Colour
- Hazel
- Hair Colour
- Black
- Height
- 5ft 5ins
- Minimum Playing Age
- 35
- Maximum Playing Age
- 45
- Accents
- Various
- Music/Dance Skills
- Irish Dancing, Set Dancing
- Sporting Skills
- Swimming
- Voice Overs
- Yes
Professional directing credits include The Crucible by Arthur Miller at St Dympha's Oratory, Grangegorman, Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre, Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, Mill Theatre Dundrum, Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre, Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen . . by Tennessee Williams, Focus Theatre, May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour), A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy), Medea (Smashing Times on nationwide tour), and Yerma and Riders to the Sea (Samuel Beckett Theatre). She was assistant director to Bairbre Ni Chaoimh for Very Heaven at Focus.
As a playwright, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy), May Our Faces Haunt You, Out of the Outside and Silent Screams. She is the author of a chapter titled Death of a Mother for Motherhood In Ireland, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy, Department of Social Policy, UCD and printed by Mercier Press (2003). She co-authored a chapter titled Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre, edited by Eric Weitz, lecturer in Drama, University of Dublin, Trinity College and printed by Carysfort Press (2004).
PREVIOUS ACTING ROLES INCLUDE
The House of Bernarda Alba by F.G. Lorca
Madame Hugon/La Tricon in Nana by Olwen Wymark
Rose in Somewhere Over the Balcony by Marie Jones
Kate in End of Term by Maeve Binchy
Annelle in Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
Amy Lee in Laundry and Bourbon by James Mc Clure
Beth in Red Devils by Debbie Horsfield
The Rape by Franca Rame, one woman show
Elsie in The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
Various parts in Alice through the Looking Glass
Mary Shelley in Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead
Eilish in Time’s Up by Carmel Winters and Patrick Mc Cabe
Sian in Next to You I Lie by Trouble and Strife Theatre Company
Previous acting roles for film/television include:
Fair City - Rape Crisis Counsellor. RTE television drama.
Rat - Woman Two. Feature film directed by Steve Barron. Writer Wesley Burrowes
The Elevator - Hilda. Film written/directed by Darren O'Kelly. UCD Film
The Book that Wrote Itself - Maurya. Feature film written/directed by Liam O Mochain
All Soul’s Day - Patient. Feature film directed by Alan Gilsenan
Dear Christine - Mother to Christine. Drama/Documentary for RTE directed by Louis Lentin
The Governor - Secretary to Judge Simms. Television drama series directed by Alan Dosser
- Professional Interests/Special Skills
- Mary specialises in the Stanislavski System of Actor Training and is a professional director and playwright. As a writer and drama facilitator she is passionate about using drama and theatre practice to explore a range of issues and to promote social justice and equality.
- Training/Qualifications
- Mary originally trained as an actor and director at Focus under the direction of Deirdre O’Connell, her friend and mentor. Mary has an honours M.A. in Film Production from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a honours B.A. in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University of Dublin Trinity College.
- Member of Company
- Smashing Times Theatre Company
- Role in Company
- Artistic Director
- Languages
- French
- Other Information
- Full driver's licence
- External Links
- http://www.smashingtimes.ie
- Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2010