Laoisa Sexton

Last updated

Laoisa Sexton
Laoisa Sexton.jpg
Sexton in 2015
Bornlate 20th century
County Clare, Ireland
Occupation(s)Actress, Short filmmaker
Years active2004–present

Laoisa Sexton[ pronunciation? ] is an Irish actress, who is also a playwright and maker of short films. [1] [2] She has written and directed the short films The Lucky Man, [3] and I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't. [4] As a playwright she has created work for the Irish Repertory Theatre. [5] [6] [7]

Contents

Early life and education

Sexton is a native of County Clare. [3]

Career

Sexton created works for the Irish Repertory Theatre. [5]

Filmography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gardner McKay</span> American actor, artist, and author (1932–2001)

George Cadogan Gardner McKay was an American actor, artist, and author. He is best known for the lead role in the TV series Adventures in Paradise, based loosely on the writings of James Michener. His character, Adam Troy, is a Korean War veteran who purchased the two-masted 82-foot schooner Tiki III, and sailed the South Pacific. The show ran for three seasons on ABC from 1959–1962, for a total of 91 episodes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aidan Gillen</span> Irish actor (born 1968)

Aidan Murphy, better known as Aidan Gillen, is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.

Albert Horton Foote Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, and his original screenplay for the film Tender Mercies (1983). He was also known for his notable live television dramas produced during the Golden Age of Television.

Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett was an English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.

Anna Maria Manahan was an Irish stage, film and television actress.

Mark Anthony McGann is an English actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lucky McKee</span> American actor

Edward Lucky McKee is an American director, writer, and actor, largely known for the 2002 cult film May. He is best known for his work in horror films.

Billy Roche is an Irish playwright and actor. He was born and still lives in Wexford and most of his writings are based there. Originally a singer with The Roach Band, he turned to writing in the 1980s. He has written a number of plays, including The Wexford Trilogy. He has also written screenplay of Trojan Eddie and published a novel, Tumbling Down, and a book of short stories.

Charles Gerald Wood was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Simon Treves</span> English actor, director and writer

Frederick Simon Treves is an English actor, director and writer, best known for playing Harold 'Stinker' Pinker in three series of ITV's Jeeves and Wooster. In 2018 he played Aleister Crowley in the short film Boca do Inferno, directed by Luis Porto and shot in Porto and Cascais, Portugal.

David Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–5 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79).

Terry Johnson is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. Educated at Birmingham University, he worked as an actor from 1971 to 1975, and has been active as a playwright since the early 1980s.

Paolo Rotondo is a New Zealand director, writer and actor of stage and screen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irish Repertory Theatre</span> Off-Brodway theatre

The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off Broadway theatre founded in 1988.

Portable Theatre Company was a writer-led company that toured alternative arts venues in the UK between 1968 -1973. Their aim was to present original and provocative new writing that challenged the staid mediocrity of mainstream theatre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leo Butler</span> British playwright

Leo Butler is a British playwright. His plays have been staged, among others, by the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Almeida Theatre. His plays have been published by Bloomsbury A & C Black. His 2001 play Redundant won the George Devine Award. Between 2005 and 2014 he was Playwriting Tutor for the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Gallagher</span> American writer

Mary Gallagher is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actress, director and teacher. For six years, she was artistic director of Gypsy, a theatre company in the Hudson Valley, New York, which collaborated with many artists to create site-specific mask-and-puppet music-theatre with texts and lyrics by Gallagher. These pieces included Premanjali and the 7 Geese Brothers, Ama and The Scottish Play. In 1996-97, she directed the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and she taught playwriting and screenwriting at New York University/Tisch School of the Arts from 2001 to 2010. She is a member of Actors & Writers, a theater company in the Hudson Valley, and the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York City. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, where she developed many of her plays and created and moderated the series, "You Can Make a Life: Conversations with Playwrights" from 1994 to 2001.

Aedín Moloney is an American and Irish TV, Theatre and Film actress and producer. She was born in Dublin, Ireland. She is the founder and producing artistic director of New York's Fallen Angel Theatre Company. She is the daughter of musician Paddy Moloney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Mercier (playwright)</span> Irish playwright screenwriter, film and theatre director

Paul Mercier is an Irish playwright screenwriter, film and theatre director. Born in Dublin and living in An Cheathrú Rua he was the founder member and Artistic Director of the Passion Machine Theatre Company, and is a Director with Anne Gately of the film production company An Pointe Productions. His work is known for its gritty poetic realism and examination of ordinary, contemporary Irish life.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jude Idada</span> Nigerian filmmaker and poet

Jude Idada is a Nigerian actor, poet, playwright and producer best known for writing the feature film, The Tenant. He has also produced and written several other short films and books.

References

  1. "Laoisa Sexton". IrishPlayography.com.
  2. "Laoisa Sexton – Film Ireland Magazine". 28 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "The Lucky Man written & directed by Laoisa Sexton" via IMDB.
  4. "Sexton returns for premiere". IrishEcho.com .
  5. 1 2 Webster, Andy (25 August 2014). "Mother's Death Tests a Family's Ties". The New York Times .
  6. Shortall, Eithne (13 September 2023). "Leading lady at last". TheTimes.co.uk .
  7. "Sexton's 'Pigeon' soars at Rep". IrishEcho.com.
  8. "The Ulysses Project". IFI.ie .
  9. ""In the Woods with a Dead Dog" (2021)". Kinorium.com.
  10. Marcantonio, Julia (14 March 2019). "Film 'I Didn't... I Wasn't...I Amn't' to be Screened at Dingle International Film Festival". Hotpress.com .