GINA Moxley is having the sort of year guaranteed to produce the full 40 shades in any other theatre-type. The one-time stand-up comedian turned actor/ writer starred in two Irish-made feature films last summer - Trish McAdam's Snakes and Ladders and The Sun, The Moon and The Stars with co-stars Angie Dickenson and Jason Donovan.
Both, says Gina a little nervously, are due for release shortly.
Her first play, Danti-Dan, was a huge critical success here and in London and on the strength of it, she has been commissioned by the National Theatre in London to write a play for them.
First-time film producers Siobhan Bourke from Rough Magic and Kate Lennon are set to make the film version of Danti-Dan - as soon as Gina finishes the film script. Now she has been, included - alongside Manna Carr, Jimmy Murphy and Tom Mclntyre - in a new book called" The Dazzling Dark, an anthology of new Irish plays launched in Dublin this week by playwright
Frank McGuinness.
Peggy Butcher, the woman from Faber and Faber who had the idea for the book, said that the biggest sales for plays in print comes not as you might expect from campus bookshops but in theatre foyers where audiences buy the text of a the play they've just seen.