BRENDAN MURRAY
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Brendan is a playwright, theatre director and teacher with nearly forty years' professional experience. During his career he has directed for a wide range of audiences and taught at several leading Drama Schools.
He was Writer-in-Residence at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield (1989/90), under the ACGB Resident Dramatist Attachment Scheme and has since undertaken commissions for Salisbury Playhouse / Myrtle Theatre, Barnstorm Theatre Company, tutti frutti Productions, Proteus, Eastern Angles, New Perspectives, Glyndebourne Education, The Crucible Studio, Solent Peoples Theatre, Greenwich and Lewisham Young Peoples Theatre, Theatre Centre, The Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Hijinx, The Albany Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre For Children, SNAP, The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, The Grand Theatre Blackpool, Polka, Red Ladder, Jersey Arts Centre, Oxfordshire (Touring) Theatre Company and BBC Network radio. Brendan also works as a dramaturg, runs workshops and speaks at conferences. Originally from Manchester, Brendan has lived in Brighton since 1988. |
WRITING Credits
THEATRE
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(Yellow is) The Colour of Sunshine tutti Frutti 2019
Barney Carey Gets His Wings Barnstorm Theatre 2018
Up Down Man Salisbury Playhouse 2016 / Tobacco Factory 2017
A Christmas Carol Woolwich Tramshed 2016
Beauty & the Beast Woolwich Tramshed 2015
Seeing The Lights Theatre by the Lake, Keswick 2014 / New Victoria Theatre Stoke 2015
Robin Hood Woolwich Tramshed 2014
Monday’s Child tutti frutti 2014 / Barnstorm 2015/16
The Seal Wife York Theatre Royal Playhouse Project 2013 & 2019
Entertaining Angels New Perspectives 2013
Missing in Action Proteus Theatre 2012
Hare & Tortoise tutti frutti & Crucible Studio 2011 / Linz Children’s Theatre 2013-15 / Landestheater Neuss 2014-15 / Nottingham Playhouse 2016 / Pied Piper National Tour 2017
Molly Moonshine Theatre Centre 2011 / Linz Children’s Theatre 2012-21
Round The Twist Eastern Angles 2011
Mansfield Park & Ride Eastern Angles 2029
Scarlet Ribbons / Princess Rubyslippers / The Falling Sky / Housewives’ Choice / Noah’s Ark / My Foolish Heart Oxfordshire Theatre Company 2004-8
After You Red Ladder 2002 / Theater an der Effingerstrasse Bern 2014
The Big Magic Polka Children's Theatre 2002
Eliza’s House Manchester Royal Exchange 2001
Adventures In Wonderland Blackpool Grand 2001
Big Baby Manchester Royal Exchange 1999 / Oxfordshire Theatre Company 2004 / Visible Fictions 2005
Something Beginning With Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1998 / Unicorn Theatre for Children 1999 / Orange Tree 2000
Under The Bed Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1996 / The Lyric Hammersmith 1997 / Theatre Centre 1998 & 2009
A Leap in the Dark Hijinx 1996
How High Is Up? Theatre Centre 1995 & over fifty productions worldwide
The Collywobbles GLYPT 1993
My Beautiful Laundrette Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1991 / Tristan Bates 2013
The Angelic Aspiration Solent Peoples Theatre 1991
The Practical Significance of g Crucible Theatre 1990
On The Beach / Lifeboat Rose Bruford College 1987-89
What? No Bananas! / After Columbus (co-writer) Belgrade Theatre 1983/4
OPERA
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The Magic Flute Version for children, Brighton Festival, national tour & Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2009 - 2011
RADIO
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Abridgement of Penelope Lively's novel: Radio 5, 1992 and Radio 4, 1994
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(Yellow is) The Colour of Sunshine tutti Frutti 2019
Barney Carey Gets His Wings Barnstorm Theatre 2018
Up Down Man Salisbury Playhouse 2016 / Tobacco Factory 2017
A Christmas Carol Woolwich Tramshed 2016
Beauty & the Beast Woolwich Tramshed 2015
Seeing The Lights Theatre by the Lake, Keswick 2014 / New Victoria Theatre Stoke 2015
Robin Hood Woolwich Tramshed 2014
Monday’s Child tutti frutti 2014 / Barnstorm 2015/16
The Seal Wife York Theatre Royal Playhouse Project 2013 & 2019
Entertaining Angels New Perspectives 2013
Missing in Action Proteus Theatre 2012
Hare & Tortoise tutti frutti & Crucible Studio 2011 / Linz Children’s Theatre 2013-15 / Landestheater Neuss 2014-15 / Nottingham Playhouse 2016 / Pied Piper National Tour 2017
Molly Moonshine Theatre Centre 2011 / Linz Children’s Theatre 2012-21
Round The Twist Eastern Angles 2011
Mansfield Park & Ride Eastern Angles 2029
Scarlet Ribbons / Princess Rubyslippers / The Falling Sky / Housewives’ Choice / Noah’s Ark / My Foolish Heart Oxfordshire Theatre Company 2004-8
After You Red Ladder 2002 / Theater an der Effingerstrasse Bern 2014
The Big Magic Polka Children's Theatre 2002
Eliza’s House Manchester Royal Exchange 2001
Adventures In Wonderland Blackpool Grand 2001
Big Baby Manchester Royal Exchange 1999 / Oxfordshire Theatre Company 2004 / Visible Fictions 2005
Something Beginning With Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1998 / Unicorn Theatre for Children 1999 / Orange Tree 2000
Under The Bed Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1996 / The Lyric Hammersmith 1997 / Theatre Centre 1998 & 2009
A Leap in the Dark Hijinx 1996
How High Is Up? Theatre Centre 1995 & over fifty productions worldwide
The Collywobbles GLYPT 1993
My Beautiful Laundrette Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1991 / Tristan Bates 2013
The Angelic Aspiration Solent Peoples Theatre 1991
The Practical Significance of g Crucible Theatre 1990
On The Beach / Lifeboat Rose Bruford College 1987-89
What? No Bananas! / After Columbus (co-writer) Belgrade Theatre 1983/4
OPERA
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The Magic Flute Version for children, Brighton Festival, national tour & Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2009 - 2011
RADIO
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Abridgement of Penelope Lively's novel: Radio 5, 1992 and Radio 4, 1994
DIRECTING CREDITS
THE LIKENESS The White Bear 2020
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST St George’s Theatre Great Yarmouth 2019
NEW LABOUR Italia Conti 2019
DIAL M FOR MURDER Sheringham little Theatre 2019
LIVING TOGETHER Sheringham Little Theatre 2018
UP DOWN MAN Tobacco Factory 2017 & Salisbury Playhouse 2016
NOEL & GERTIE Sheringham Little Theatre 2017
THE WAY OF THE WORLD LAMDA 2017
ANTIGONE / BRONTE / CIDER WITH ROSIE / ANGELIC ASPIRATION / DANCING AT LUGHNASA / UNDER
MILK WOOD / HABEAS CORPUS New Diorama Theatre / Drama Studio London (DSL) 1995 – 2015
JOHNNY BOY / THE MAGIC FLUTE Brighton Festival / Glyndebourne 2009 & 2011
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ / THE DELICIOUS REVENGE OF PRINCESS RUBYSLIPPERS / UNDER MILK WOOD / THE
FIREBIRD / BIG BABY / BIG SISTER, LITTLE BROTHER / THE NUTCRACKER & THE MOUSE KING Oxfordshire (Touring) Theatre Company 2003-08 / National tours
AFTER COLUMBUS The Hen & Chickens 2005 TIME AND THE CONWAYS Theatre 503 2000
MIRAD, A BOY FROM BOSNIA Minerva Theatre (CFT) 1999
THE CHERRY ORCHARD Drayton Court Theatre 1998
IT TOOK MORE THAN ONE MAN Albany Empire 1997
SERFDOM RIGHT / THE PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF "g" Crucible Theatre / Vancouver Children's Festival 1990
ON THE BEACH Crucible Studio / Rose Bruford College 1989
LIVES WORTH LIVING Doctor Foster's Travelling Players
HOT DORIS THE MUSICAL The Oval House
JUST DESERTS Interchange Studios / Rose Bruford 1988
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER Man In The Moon, London
LIFEBOAT Crucible Studio / Rose Bruford College 1987
GETTING ON / DEADLINES / MALICE / THE SHADOW OF OTHER PEOPLE The Belgrade Studio Coventry 1982-85
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST St George’s Theatre Great Yarmouth 2019
NEW LABOUR Italia Conti 2019
DIAL M FOR MURDER Sheringham little Theatre 2019
LIVING TOGETHER Sheringham Little Theatre 2018
UP DOWN MAN Tobacco Factory 2017 & Salisbury Playhouse 2016
NOEL & GERTIE Sheringham Little Theatre 2017
THE WAY OF THE WORLD LAMDA 2017
ANTIGONE / BRONTE / CIDER WITH ROSIE / ANGELIC ASPIRATION / DANCING AT LUGHNASA / UNDER
MILK WOOD / HABEAS CORPUS New Diorama Theatre / Drama Studio London (DSL) 1995 – 2015
JOHNNY BOY / THE MAGIC FLUTE Brighton Festival / Glyndebourne 2009 & 2011
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ / THE DELICIOUS REVENGE OF PRINCESS RUBYSLIPPERS / UNDER MILK WOOD / THE
FIREBIRD / BIG BABY / BIG SISTER, LITTLE BROTHER / THE NUTCRACKER & THE MOUSE KING Oxfordshire (Touring) Theatre Company 2003-08 / National tours
AFTER COLUMBUS The Hen & Chickens 2005 TIME AND THE CONWAYS Theatre 503 2000
MIRAD, A BOY FROM BOSNIA Minerva Theatre (CFT) 1999
THE CHERRY ORCHARD Drayton Court Theatre 1998
IT TOOK MORE THAN ONE MAN Albany Empire 1997
SERFDOM RIGHT / THE PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF "g" Crucible Theatre / Vancouver Children's Festival 1990
ON THE BEACH Crucible Studio / Rose Bruford College 1989
LIVES WORTH LIVING Doctor Foster's Travelling Players
HOT DORIS THE MUSICAL The Oval House
JUST DESERTS Interchange Studios / Rose Bruford 1988
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER Man In The Moon, London
LIFEBOAT Crucible Studio / Rose Bruford College 1987
GETTING ON / DEADLINES / MALICE / THE SHADOW OF OTHER PEOPLE The Belgrade Studio Coventry 1982-85
awards and nominations
WGGB Award: Best Play for young people 2009 & 2012
Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow: King's College Hospital, 2002/3
ACE Children's Award: Best Children's Play 2001
Manchester Evening News: Best Play Shortlist 2001
The John Whiting Award: Runner-up 2000
ACGB Bursary Award 1997
ACGB Writer-in-Residence: Crucible Theatre 1989-90
Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow: King's College Hospital, 2002/3
ACE Children's Award: Best Children's Play 2001
Manchester Evening News: Best Play Shortlist 2001
The John Whiting Award: Runner-up 2000
ACGB Bursary Award 1997
ACGB Writer-in-Residence: Crucible Theatre 1989-90
Scarlet Ribbons
The Falling Sky
Under Milk Wood
