Lecturer

Email: mary.moynihan@tudublin.ie

MA (Film, DIT) BA (Letters, TCD)

Mary Moynihan, MA,  is a writer, theatre and film-maker, and Artistic Director of the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Human Rights incorporating  Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.  Mary specialises in using the arts to promote human rights, peace, gender equality and positive mental health and well-being, and develops cutting edge, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations.  Award winning projects include Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health, run in partnership with the Samaritans and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace and Women in an Equal Europe run with organisations from Spain, Germany, Poland, Croatia and Serbia.

 As a playwright, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan, Deirdre Kinahan, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe - selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016 – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.

As a theatre director, professional directing credits include The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast. 

Mary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows, the short film Tell Them Our Names - selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival - and the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe.

Mary Moynihan

Email: mary.moynihan@dit.ie

Website:  www.smashingtimes.ie