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Tommy Murphy Tommy Murphy i(A76304 works by) (a.k.a. Thomas Murphy; Tom Murphy)
Born: Established: 1979 Queanbeyan, Queanbeyan area, Canberra region (NSW), Southeastern NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon Calling You Back Tommy Murphy , Australia : ABC Radio National , 2021 23336986 2021 single work radio play
1 4 y separately published work icon Packer & Sons Tommy Murphy , 2019 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2019 14531207 2019 single work drama

'A battler at a Tasmanian racecourse finds ten shillings in the dirt. He puts it on a 12-1 long shot, and when it romps home he’s off to the mainland, and the Packer Dynasty is born. Fathers and sons across generations, through war, the Depression, technological change. The family myth grows with the influence, and each son feels the weight of time, of power. But now it’s the 21st century. Newspapers, magazines, broadcast TV – what are they? Now it’s time for entertainment through your phone. And back to laying bets on long shots.

'A deeply researched, muscular work from Tommy Murphy (Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Holding the Man), Packer & Sons puts on stage the men who have loomed large over Sydney for nearly 100 years.

'Plotted around the transitions of power from father to son over four generations, this is a play about power and what it does to the men who wield it.'

Source: Belvoir Street Theatre.

1 form y separately published work icon Fighting Season Blake Ayshford , Kylie Needham , Tommy Murphy , Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Ben C. Lucas et. al. )agent Australia : Goalpost Pictures , 2018 10730603 2018 series - publisher film/TV war literature thriller

'Fighting Season is a timely and emotionally resonant series that follows the lives of a group of Australian soldiers, and their families, returned home suddenly after their commander is killed in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. Part mystery thriller, part relationship drama, it asks us to examine the human costs of war.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 4 Mark Colvin's Kidney Tommy Murphy , 2017 single work drama

'A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be.

'Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London – until she’s accused of betraying the secrets of her clients to the press. Her life comes crashing down, and she starts to wonder if she’s losing her mind. Then it emerges that her phone was being illegally tapped by reporters, and she sets out on a campaign to restore her reputation.

'But along the way, her ideas of redemption change – she’s been interviewed by a journalist on the other side of the world, and his story puts everything into a new perspective.' (Production summary)

1 The Desirables Tommy Murphy , 2017 single work drama

'THE DESIRABLES is the story of an aspiring young lawyer who smuggles members of a visiting Afghan soccer team into her mother’s house. The comforts of home are shaken. The law comes knocking. Deceits pile up. Hidden agendas and broken efforts to express love culminate in disaster. Finally there is nowhere to run. There are no simple answers – as our current political debate suggests – and this play offers up the quandaries of the price and the prize of charity.'

Source: Ensemble Theatre (https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/desirables-tommy-murphy/).

1 Writing ‘Mark Colvin's Kidney’ Tommy Murphy , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 February 2017;
'Tommy Murphy's stage show portrays ABC journalist Mark Colvin and business adviser Mary-Ellen Field’s relationship after the News of the World hacking scandal.' (Introduction)
1 44 form y separately published work icon Holding the Man Tommy Murphy , ( dir. Neil Armfield ) Australia : Goalpost Pictures , 2015 7793845 2015 single work film/TV

'In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge burden which will affect every aspect of their lives.' (Production summary: IMDB)

1 14 form y separately published work icon Devil's Playground Blake Ayshford , Alice Addison , Cate Shortland , Tommy Murphy , ( dir. Rachel Ward et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2014 Z1912252 2014 series - publisher film/TV '1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.' (Source: Screen Australia)
1 Monkey Baa and Windmill Theatre Wow Young Imaginations Tommy Murphy , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 April 2014;

— Review of Pinocchio Julianne O'Brien , Rosemary Myers , 2012 single work musical theatre ; Pete the Sheep Sandra Eldridge , Tim McGarry , Eva Di Cesare , 2014 single work musical theatre
1 Again, Before, After Tommy Murphy , 2011 single work prose
— Appears in: Ampersand Magazine , Spring no. 4 2011; (p. 28-34)
1 Profile : Tommy Murphy Tommy Murphy , 2011 single work autobiography
— Appears in: ACTWrite , July vol. 17 no. 6 2011; (p. 3)
1 48 form y separately published work icon Offspring Imogen Banks , John Edwards , Debra Oswald , Debra Oswald , Tony McNamara , Leon Ford , Ben Chessell , Jonathan Gavin , Michael Lucas , Christine Bartlett , Tommy Murphy , Kylie Needham , Ian Meadows , Charlie Garber , Samantha Strauss , Li-Kim Chuah , Rachel Givney , Alice Bell , ( dir. Shirley Barrett et. al. )agent 2010 Australia : Southern Star John Edwards , 2010- Z1733890 2010 series - publisher film/TV

'Born out of the telemovie of the same name, Offspring is a contemporary drama series about Nina Proudman, a thirtysomething obstetrician and her fabulously messy family. Following the Proudman family's adventures searching for love, fulfillment and balance in the chaos of modern life, Offspring is about the life forces that drive us all: love, sex, babies, food and music. Stylistically fresh and visually exciting, Offspring mixes conventional narrative drama with flashbacks, graphic animation and fantasy sequences, showcasing the vibrant world of Fitzroy, Melbourne, where Nina and the extended Proudman family go about their unpredictable daily lives.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive.

1 15 form y separately published work icon Spirited Jacquelin Perske , Ian Meadows , Tony McNamara , Jessica Redenbach , Marieke Hardy , Lally Katz , Alice Bell , Tommy Murphy , Jacquelin Perske , Claudia Karvan , ( dir. Jonathan Teplitzky et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : Southern Star Entertainment Channel W , 2010- Z1719410 2010- series - publisher film/TV humour fantasy

'Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. From the producers of Love My Way, Spirited is a blackly funny exploration of love, death and life seen through the lives of a group of people who are extreme, complicated and unique. The eight episode, escapist and romantic drama series will take richly drawn characters through situations and storylines that are anything but predictable. This is a show with a lightness of touch and yet it also encompasses the absurdity of modern dentistry, explores the curious world of parenting, celebrates the punk aesthetic and depicts a unique vision of the spirit world' (Spirited website).

2 13 y separately published work icon Gwen in Purgatory Tommy Murphy , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2010 Z1627296 2010 single work drama humour

'Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new house in a new subdivision on the edge of town, trying to work out if the remote in her hand operates the TV, the air-con or the fan-forced oven. But the kids are coming round and Father Ezekiel is on his way to bless the house, so the beginning of the end is looking up ...

'Written specially for Company B, Gwen in Purgatory is Tommy Murphy's brilliant existential comedy about an African missionary in the wilderness of Australian suburbia. Gwen's brood of ordinary souls is battling along in a changing world and wringing out the last drops of their matriarch's faith. Between them they may just find their way to some sort of forgiveness.'

Source: Belvoir Street Theatre website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/
Sighted: 22/09/2009

1 Manqué USA in noxa esse i "Which-a-paw hands deliver the caress", Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Nebula , December vol. 6 no. 4 2009; (p. 218-219)
1 He Wanted to Sleep with Rwanda i "he wanted to sleep with rwanda", Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Nebula , December vol. 6 no. 4 2009; (p. 217)
1 On the Moon i "What would Jello do", Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Nebula , December vol. 6 no. 4 2009; (p. 216)
1 Why the 'Off-Broadway' Run Is the Playwright's Friend Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 July 2009; (p. 13)
Tommy Murphy discusses the benefits derived from producing work in differing venues (urban and surburban). Re-writing then flows from the responses of audiences and the input of cast members and production teams.
1 Please Welcome...Tommy Murphy Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Limelight , July 2009; (p. 18)
1 The Dramatist's Job Description Tommy Murphy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , April/May no. 184 2009; (p. 4-5)
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