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Philomena and her twin brother Colum were born in [[Illinois]], United States, of an Irish mother and American father. Her father, Louis A. Muinzer, graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1949, and moved to [[Belfast]] to teach at [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref name=paw1975/> The family moved to [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland, when the children were young.<ref name=spit>{{cite web | title=Cruella De Ville | website=A to Z of N. Ireland Punk Bands |publisher= Spit Records| url=https://www.spitrecords.co.uk/cruelladeville.htm | access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>{{efn|Her Facebook page says "From [[Champaign, Illinois]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=Philomena Muinzer | website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphilomena.muinzer%2Fabout | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref>}} |
Philomena and her twin brother Colum were born in [[Illinois]], United States, of an Irish mother and American father. Her father, Louis A. Muinzer, graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1949, and moved to [[Belfast]] to teach at [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref name=paw1975/> The family moved to [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland, when the children were young.<ref name=spit>{{cite web | title=Cruella De Ville | website=A to Z of N. Ireland Punk Bands |publisher= Spit Records| url=https://www.spitrecords.co.uk/cruelladeville.htm | access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>{{efn|Her Facebook page says "From [[Champaign, Illinois]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=Philomena Muinzer | website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphilomena.muinzer%2Fabout | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref>}} |
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She a graduate of the [[University of Essex]].<ref name= |
She a graduate of the [[University of Essex]].<ref name=ntq1987/> She moved to the United States to study at [[Princeton University]] in 1973,<ref name=paw1975>{{cite book | title=Princeton Alumni Weekly | publisher=Princeton University Press | issue=v. 76 | date=May 1976 | issn=0149-9270 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-RVbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA30-PA7 | access-date=20 August 2022 | page=30-PA7}}</ref> graduating in 1978.<ref name=franklin>{{cite news| url=http://www.digifind-it.com/franklin/data/news-record/1978/07%20July/07-20-1978.pdf| title=Playwright McCieery man of many talents| first=Elaine P. |last=Heinemann| quote=[Other students, such] as Philomena Muinzer -- whose glowing "We’re on the One Road," a drama of contempary Ireland, was premiered at Intime the year before last -- are on their way. She’s currently attending the Yake Drama School|date=20 July 1978| work=[[The Franklin News-Record]]| location = [[Manville, New Jersey]]}}</ref> This was followed by postgraduate studies at the [[Yale School of Drama]] (1980).<ref>{{cite journal | title= Lost Alumni: 1980| journal=YSD Annual Magazine 2010-11| p=71|date=Fall 2012| volume= LV| publisher=[[David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University]] | via=[[Issuu]] | url=https://issuu.com/yalerep/docs/ysdmagazine2010 | access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=ff1995>{{cite journal | journal=Books Ireland | publisher=Wordwell Ltd. | issue=186 | year=1995 | issn=03766039 | jstor=20623113 | pages=131 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20623113 | access-date=16 August 2022| title=First Flush: Memories of the Irish-Israeli War [book review]}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Philomena Muinzer has served as [[dramaturge]] for the [[Royal National Theatre]].<ref name=spit/> |
Philomena Muinzer has served as [[dramaturge]] for the [[Royal National Theatre]].<ref name=spit/> |
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Her 1987 article, "Evacuating the Museum: the Crisis of Playwriting in Ulster", published in ''[[New Theatre Quarterly]]'', February 1987,<ref name=ntq1987/> has been extensively quoted in literature about Irish theatre and women playwrights.<ref>{{cite book | title=Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity [PDF] [4ruvd97nesp0] | via=EDoc Pub|first= Margaret |last=Llewellyn Jones | date=2002|quote=First Published in Great Britain in Paperback in 2002 by Intellect Books|isbn=1-84150-824-1 | url=https://vdoc.pub/documents/contemporary-irish-drama-cultural-identity-4ruvd97nesp0 | access-date=16 August 2022}} [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=m7qrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT161 Google Books]</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Murray | first=C. | title=Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation | publisher=Syracuse University Press | series=Irish Studies | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8156-0643-7 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JGUUpRAP4CoC&pg=PA188 | access-date=20 August 2022 | page=188}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Tracie | first=R. | title=Christina Reid's Theatre of Memory and Identity: Within and Beyond the Troubles | publisher=Springer International Publishing | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-319-97876-5 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=P3xxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 | access-date=20 August 2022 | page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Kosok | first=H. | last2=Kamm | first2=J. | title=Twentieth-century Theatre and Drama in English: Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday | publisher=WVT, Wiss. Verlag Trier | year=1999 | isbn=978-3-88476-333-9 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VSVaAAAAMAAJ | access-date=20 August 2022 | page=}}</ref> |
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==Selected works== |
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| ⚫ | *''Together Against Him'' (1982), a play, which was awarded a bursary by The [[Arts Council of Great Britain]]<ref name=ntq1987>{{cite journal | last=Muinzer | first=Philomena | title=Evacuating the Museum: the Crisis of Playwriting in Ulster | journal=[[New Theatre Quarterly]] | volume=3 | issue=9 | date=February 1987 | issn=1474-0613 | doi=10.1017/S0266464X00008502 | pages=44–63 | url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/abs/evacuating-the-museum-the-crisis-of-playwriting-in-ulster/F3EC52970FE1B50F73D90DDCD777CD5D | access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref> and well-reviewed by the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''<ref name=ff1995/><ref>[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-1-349-20506-6%2F1.pdf Notes]</ref> |
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* ''[[Memories of the Irish-Israeli War]]'' (1995), a novel (as Phil O'Brien)<ref name=ff1995/> |
* ''[[Memories of the Irish-Israeli War]]'' (1995), a novel (as Phil O'Brien)<ref name=ff1995/> |
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* ''Coldplay: Look at the Stars'' (2004), about the band [[Coldplay]], in particular the effect of fame on frontman [[Chris Martin]] (as Phil O'Brien)<ref>{{cite book | last=O'Brien | first=P. | title=Coldplay: Look at the Stars | publisher=Plexus | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-85965-349-7 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L24PAbDw9D0C | access-date=16 August 2022 | page=}}</ref> |
* ''Coldplay: Look at the Stars'' (2004), about the band [[Coldplay]], in particular the effect of fame on frontman [[Chris Martin]] (as Phil O'Brien)<ref>{{cite book | last=O'Brien | first=P. | title=Coldplay: Look at the Stars | publisher=Plexus | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-85965-349-7 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L24PAbDw9D0C | access-date=16 August 2022 | page=}}</ref> |
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* "Evacuating the Museum: the Crisis of Playwriting in Ulster", in ''[[New Theatre Quarterly]]'', January 2009<ref name=ntq2009/><ref>{{cite book | title=Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity [PDF] [4ruvd97nesp0] | via=EDoc Pub|first= Margaret |last=Llewellyn Jones | date=2002|quote=First Published in Great Britain in Paperback in 2002 by Intellect Books|isbn=1-84150-824-1 | url=https://vdoc.pub/documents/contemporary-irish-drama-cultural-identity-4ruvd97nesp0 | access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Revision as of 09:09, 20 August 2022
Philomena "Phil" Muinzer is a dramaturge, writer and former musician from Northern Ireland, who has used the pen name Phil O'Brien for some of her work.
Early life and education
Philomena and her twin brother Colum were born in Illinois, United States, of an Irish mother and American father. Her father, Louis A. Muinzer, graduated from Princeton University in 1949, and moved to Belfast to teach at Queen's University Belfast.[1] The family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, when the children were young.[2][a]
She a graduate of the University of Essex.[4] She moved to the United States to study at Princeton University in 1973,[1] graduating in 1978.[5] This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Yale School of Drama (1980).[6][7]
Career
While at Princeton, she was disturbed by the sharp contrast between the violence of Belfast and the peace and calm of Princeton, and wrote the play We're on the One Road, about The Troubles in Ireland. It was performed in 1976, cast and directed by Muinzer.[1]
Both Philomena and Colum played in the post-punk rock band Cruella de Ville, formed in 1982.[2]
Philomena Muinzer has served as dramaturge for the Royal National Theatre.[2]
Her 1987 article, "Evacuating the Museum: the Crisis of Playwriting in Ulster", published in New Theatre Quarterly, February 1987,[4] has been extensively quoted in literature about Irish theatre and women playwrights.[8][9][10][11]
Selected works
Muinzer has written several plays and at least two books, sometimes adopting the pseudonym Phil O'Brien (O'Brien being the Munizers' mother's maiden name[2]):
- We're on the One Road (1976)[5]
- Together Against Him (1982), a play, which was awarded a bursary by The Arts Council of Great Britain[4] and well-reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement[7][12]
- Memories of the Irish-Israeli War (1995), a novel (as Phil O'Brien)[7]
- Coldplay: Look at the Stars (2004), about the band Coldplay, in particular the effect of fame on frontman Chris Martin (as Phil O'Brien)[13]
Personal life
She was married to writer Colin Bennett until his death on 15 February 2015.[14]
Footnotes
- ^ Her Facebook page says "From Champaign, Illinois".[3]
References
- ^ a b c Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton University Press. May 1976. p. 30-PA7. ISSN 0149-9270. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Cruella De Ville". A to Z of N. Ireland Punk Bands. Spit Records. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ "Philomena Muinzer". Facebook. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ a b c Muinzer, Philomena (February 1987). "Evacuating the Museum: the Crisis of Playwriting in Ulster". New Theatre Quarterly. 3 (9): 44–63. doi:10.1017/S0266464X00008502. ISSN 1474-0613. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ a b Heinemann, Elaine P. (20 July 1978). "Playwright McCieery man of many talents" (PDF). The Franklin News-Record. Manville, New Jersey.
[Other students, such] as Philomena Muinzer -- whose glowing "We're on the One Road," a drama of contempary Ireland, was premiered at Intime the year before last -- are on their way. She's currently attending the Yake Drama School
- ^ "Lost Alumni: 1980". YSD Annual Magazine 2010-11. LV. David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University: 71. Fall 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2022 – via Issuu.
- ^ a b c "First Flush: Memories of the Irish-Israeli War [book review]". Books Ireland (186). Wordwell Ltd.: 131 1995. ISSN 0376-6039. JSTOR 20623113. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ Llewellyn Jones, Margaret (2002). Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity [PDF] [4ruvd97nesp0]. ISBN 1-84150-824-1. Retrieved 16 August 2022 – via EDoc Pub.
First Published in Great Britain in Paperback in 2002 by Intellect Books
Google Books - ^ Murray, C. (2000). Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation. Irish Studies. Syracuse University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8156-0643-7. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ Tracie, R. (2018). Christina Reid's Theatre of Memory and Identity: Within and Beyond the Troubles. Springer International Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-3-319-97876-5. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ Kosok, H.; Kamm, J. (1999). Twentieth-century Theatre and Drama in English: Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. WVT, Wiss. Verlag Trier. ISBN 978-3-88476-333-9. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ Notes
- ^ O'Brien, P. (2004). Coldplay: Look at the Stars. Plexus. ISBN 978-0-85965-349-7. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ "The obituary notice of BENNETT". Funeral Notices. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2022.