Michael Glenn Murphy
Michael’s previous work at the Abbey Theatre includes The Government Inspector, Arrah-na-Pogue, Bookworms (2010) and The Playboy of the Western World. He also performed in The Playboy of the Western World at the Haymarket Theatre and Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Other theatre work includes Slattery’s Sago Saga (Performance Corporation), The End of the Road (Fishamble Theatre Company), The Colleen Bawn (Project Arts Centre and tour), The Walworth Farce (Druid, national tour, UK, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand), Shining City (Rapture Theatre, Scottish and UK tour), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange Theatre), The Flags, Up On Roof and The Lonesome West (Hull Truck Theatre), Molly Sweeney (National Theatre of Scotland), The Shadow of a Gunman and Molly Sweeney (Citizens Theatre), The Weir and A Whistle in the Dark (Haymarket Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Belgrade Theatre), Playing the Victim (Told By an Idiot and Royal Court), The Emperor and the Architect and Zoo Story (Gate Theatre, London), The Firework Maker’s Daughter (Told By an Idiot and Crucible Theatre), When We Are Rich and The Brothers of the Brush (Nuffield Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Bolton Octagon, York Theatre Royal and Middle Eastern tour), The Lonesome West (Bolton Octagon Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kafka’s Dick and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (York Theatre Royal), SVEJK (Notting Hill Gate Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Centreline Productions’ UK tour), Woyzeck and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Compass Theatre), Villette (Sheffield Crucible), A Sentimental Journey (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Spirit of the Frontier (Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe), A Christmas Carol (Shaw Theatre), Othello (Custard Factory) and The Tinker’s Wedding (Kingshead Theatre). Film and television credits include Swansong (Florin Films), The Bill, Taggart, Like Father, Like Son, Rough Treatment and Big Bad World II (ITV), Silent Witness, A Dinner of Herbs and Rope Trick (BBC 10×10) and Colour Blind (Festival Film TV). Radio work includes Smokes and Daggers and Forgetting Curve (BBC Northern Ireland.
