Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright)
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Tommy Murphy (1979- ) is an award-winning Australian playwright, and has also written for television. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's course). He was born in Queanbeyan, in New South Wales, Australia. The seventh of eight children in an Irish Catholic family, Murphy says that he grew up 'in an arena of constant performance and mimicry'. His plays are known for their humour, buoyant theatricality and recurring gay themes and narratives.
He is a resident writer at Griffin Theatre Company, for which he wrote Strangers in Between and Holding the Man. Both plays have recently been published by Currency Press, in one volume.
Murphy is completing a commissioned play for Cranbrook School Sydney, called Precipice, which will have its world premiere production at NIDA's Parade Playhouse on May 3 2007, and a commissioned film for producers Margaret Fink and Emile Sherman.
Murphy sits on the Board of Directors of the Australian Theatre for Young People and World Interplay.
His plays include:
- Holding the Man (adapted from Timothy Conigrave's memoir).
- Strangers in Between.
- Kinderspiel, co-written with Manuel Schobel. A co-production between the Australian Theatre for Young People and Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin, for the 2002 Sydney Festival at the Sydney Opera House.
- Troy's House at the Australian Theatre for Young People, SUDS, the Old Fitzroy and Melbourne's La Mama.
- Bendy.
- The Massacre at Paris, adapted from Christopher Marlowe.
- Try Hard
- 360 Positions in a One Night Stand for the 2001 Sydney Festival (contributor).
- For God, Queen and Country.
[edit] Awards
- Nomination, Best New Australian Work, 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards - Holding the Man
- Winner, $15,000 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play - Strangers in Between
- Nomination, Best New Australian Work, 2006 Sydney Theatre Awards - Strangers in Between
- Nomination, Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) for Best Play - Strangers in Between
- Winner, Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwright's Award - For God, Queen & Country.
- Winner, ACT Young Playwright's Award - For God, Queen and Country
