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Martin Murphy

 

Martin is a writer, director, performer and workshop leader. His recent writing credits include Jonny Feathers the Rock & Roll Pigeon (2022), Close (2022) and Refuge (2021) all at Park Theatre.

Martin’s previous writing credits include Jury (Park Theatre / Zoom), Victim (Pleasance Courtyard / Kings Head Theatre), Worlds (VAULT Festival), Rockstar (Lyric Hammersmith), Villain (Soho Theatre / Underbelly) & Manor (Soho Theatre / Tristan Bates Theatre). Villain & Victim are both published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Martin also directed Villain, Worlds & Victim. As a workshop leader Martin currently works for the National Theatre working with teenage playwrights all over the country as part of their New Views competition and Writing for Theatre course. Martin is a former Associate Director of Arc Theatre where he ran their Youth Theatre & has delivered playwriting & drama workshops for a number of organisations including Group 64.

As a performer Martin was half of musical comedy double act Pistol & Jack who played at over a hundred venues across the UK & internationally including Secret Garden Party, Assembly Edinburgh, NuWrite Festival (Zagreb), Madame Jojos’s & Soho Theatre