Olwen Fouéré, an award-winning Irish actor, writer, director, 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, on Friday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street.

Fouéré will discuss her acting career and other aspects of her work in this visit that marks a continued partnership between the Abbey Theatre and the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University. Tickets are free, available at tickets.princeton.edu.

Copies of Not Beckett, The Plays: Female and Non-binary Irish Playwrights Respond, which includes a new short play by Fouéré, will be available for purchase and to have signed at the event, courtesy of Labyrinth Books.

Fouéré’s most recent stage appearances include The Boy by Marina Carr at the Abbey Theatre and the acclaimed production of The President by Thomas Bernhard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company.

She also recently appeared in iGirl at the Abbey Theatre; Nous l’Europe, Banquet des Peuples at the Avignon Festival; Blood Wedding with Young Vic Theatre; and Ballyturk, which was presented at the Abbey and St Ann’s Warehouse.

In 1980 Fouéré formed Operating Theatre, an avant-garde theater 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; Holding; the second season of The Tourist; The Crown season five; and the third season of Derry Girls.