Olwen Fouéré, an award-winning Irish actor, writer and director of theater, film, music, and visual arts, and frequent collaborator with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, will perform two monologues and be in conversation with Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater and Music Theater. Fouéré will discuss her career as an actor onstage, as well as in film and television, and other aspects of her work.
The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater, and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.
Fouéré will also join an informal lunch conversation on November 13 (open to University community).
Tickets & Details
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Accessibility
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About Olwen Fouéré
Olwen Fouéré. Photo by Rich Gilligan.
Olwen Fouéré is an actor, writer and director in theatre, film, music and the visual Arts. Her most recent stage appearances include The Boy by Marina Carr at the Abbey Theatre and the highly acclaimed production of The President by Thomas Bernhard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company, iGirl (Abbey Theatre); Nous l’Europe, Banquet des Peuples (Avignon Festival); Blood Wedding (Young Vic Theatre); Ballyturk (Abbey Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse). Other work of note includes riverrun — her adaptation of the voice of the river in Finnegans Wake — which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival 2013 and toured internationally; Lessness (Barbican International Beckett Festival); and a legendary production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé directed by Steven Berkoff (Gate Theatre, Dublin 1988-93).
In 1980 she formed Operating Theatre, an avant-garde theatre company and band, with composer Roger Doyle. They recently staged a reunion concert at the National Concert Hall as part of Musictown 2025 produced by Foggy Notions.
Her film and television credits include The Watchers; All You Need is Death; The Actor; The Northman; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022); Violet Gibson The Woman Who Shot Mussolini; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald; Sea Fever; Mandy; This Must Be The Place; The Survivalist; The Tourist S2; The Crown S5; Holding; Derry Girls S3.
Her numerous awards include an Irish Times Special Tribute Award, the Edinburgh Festival Archangel, and an Honorary Doctorate from Dublin City University for her outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.
Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and lecturer Aoife Kelleher will screen her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson. Unfolding a story about female leadership, human rights activism and climate action, Mrs. Robinson tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President, a pioneering U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders. The film was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
The James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our 
The James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our 