Guthrie Theater

Playbill.com's Brief Encounter with Joe Dowling
by Robert Simonson

The American theatre community knows Joe Dowling as a director, and artistic director of Minnesota's Guthrie Theatre.

But the denizens of the Ould Sod remember when young Joey Dowling was an actor, treading the boards at the Gate and Abbey Theatres. Between this and that, it's been 20 years since Dowling has stepped in front of an audience. But he's ending that dry patch this fall when he takes the starring role in a play by an old Irish friend of his, playwright Brian Friel. The play is The Faith Healer, and actor Dowling will be in the good hands of an experienced director: Joe Dowling. The newly reborn thespian talked to Playbill.com about his return to the limelight.

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