Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright)

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Tommy Murphy (born 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 and buoyant theatricality.

He was a resident writer at Griffin Theatre Company 2004-06, for which he wrote Strangers in Between and Holding the Man. Both plays are published by Currency Press, in one volume. Strangers in Between won the national 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play, and Holding the Man won the same Award in 2007. Murphy is the youngest recipient of the award, and the only playwright to win in successive years.

Murphy's commissioned play for Cranbrook School Sydney, called Precipice, had its premiere production at NIDA's Parade Playhouse on May 3 2007.

Murphy sits on the Board of Directors of the Australian Theatre for Young People and World Interplay, and is the recipient of a Centenary of Federation Medal.

In 2007, Tommy Murphy had the title of Honorary Associate conferred by the Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney.

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