Vincent Gerard Dowling (7 September 1929 â€" 9 May 2013) was an Irish
actor and director.Dowling was born in Dublin and educated at St
Mary's College and Rathmines College of Commerce. He came to
prominence in the 1950s for his role as Christy Kennedy in the
long-running radio soap opera, The Kennedys of Castleross and as a
member of the Abbey Theatre company. He returned to the Abbey as
artistic director from 1987 to 1990.Dowling emigrated to the United
States and was artistic and producing director of The Great Lakes
Shakespeare Festival (GLSF) in Cleveland, Ohio from 1976 to 1984,
where he directed, produced and acted in many classical works, by
Shakespeare and others. He is credited with discovering actor Tom
Hanks. Dowling received an Ohio Valley local Emmy for the 1983 PBS
broadcast of his 1982 GLSF production of The Playboy of the Western
World.He was visiting professor at The College of Wooster in Ohio
during the 1986-87 academic year. He founded the Miniature Theatre of
Chester (now the Chester Theatre Company), in Chester, Massachusetts,
in 1990.
actor and director.Dowling was born in Dublin and educated at St
Mary's College and Rathmines College of Commerce. He came to
prominence in the 1950s for his role as Christy Kennedy in the
long-running radio soap opera, The Kennedys of Castleross and as a
member of the Abbey Theatre company. He returned to the Abbey as
artistic director from 1987 to 1990.Dowling emigrated to the United
States and was artistic and producing director of The Great Lakes
Shakespeare Festival (GLSF) in Cleveland, Ohio from 1976 to 1984,
where he directed, produced and acted in many classical works, by
Shakespeare and others. He is credited with discovering actor Tom
Hanks. Dowling received an Ohio Valley local Emmy for the 1983 PBS
broadcast of his 1982 GLSF production of The Playboy of the Western
World.He was visiting professor at The College of Wooster in Ohio
during the 1986-87 academic year. He founded the Miniature Theatre of
Chester (now the Chester Theatre Company), in Chester, Massachusetts,
in 1990.
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