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Gerald Murphy

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Gerald Murphy's first full length play, The Welcome, was given a staged reading by Druid Theatre Company in 2001. His play Take me Away was developed as part of Rough Magic's SEEDS project, in association with the Dublin Fringe Festival. His first radio play Stranger in the Night was broadcast by RTE in 2001, and received a PJ O'Connor Award. Murphy has also written for RTE television's Fair City, and works as a script development consultant for film and animation

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Take Me Away Gerald Murphy
Tiny Plays for Ireland Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Michelle Read Deirdre Kinahan Karl O'Neill Rory Nolan Ardal O'Hanlon Evan Lee D'Alton Gerald Murphy Rachel Feehily Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Mark Hennessy Sean McLoughlin Adrienne Michel-Long Rosaleen McDonagh Gregory Rosenstock Niamh Creely Michael Cussen Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc Jesse Weaver Antonia Hart