Tommy Murphy(II)
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Tommy Murphy is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. His TV credits include Foxtel's The Twelve (Warner Bros/EasyTiger), Fighting Season (Goalpost Pictures) and Devil's Playground (Matchbox/NBCUniversal, winner of the 2015 Logie for Most Outstanding Miniseries and AACTA Award for Best Miniseries) for which he was on the writing teams.
He is The Creator the six part limited drama series Significant Others (Fremantle/ABC) working as Head Writer and Script Producer.
Murphy was writer and Associate Producer on the film Holding the Man, based on Timothy Conigrave's celebrated memoir, for which he won the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Netflix distributes the film globally. The project stemmed from Murphy's stage adaptation, which is still regularly produced around the world with new productions slated for Rio and Florence. The premiere production of Holding the Man transferred to multiple venues and cities including the Sydney Opera House, San Francisco's NCTC and London's West End. It garnered multiple awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Philip Parsons Award. He was the youngest and only dual winner in consecutive years of the NSW Premier's Literary Award, having won for Strangers in Between at Griffin in 2005. Strangers in Between was revived in Melbourne, Sydney and London's West End in 2018.
His most recent stage play was Packer & Sons, a dramatisation of three generations of Australia's famous tycoon family. It broke a ten-year box office record at Belvoir and won the Australia Council National Theatre Award. He is the writer for the upcoming stage musical for John Farnham and Michael Cassel productions. His next play will be a stage adaptation of On The Beach for Sydney Theatre Company in July 2023.
He is The Creator the six part limited drama series Significant Others (Fremantle/ABC) working as Head Writer and Script Producer.
Murphy was writer and Associate Producer on the film Holding the Man, based on Timothy Conigrave's celebrated memoir, for which he won the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Netflix distributes the film globally. The project stemmed from Murphy's stage adaptation, which is still regularly produced around the world with new productions slated for Rio and Florence. The premiere production of Holding the Man transferred to multiple venues and cities including the Sydney Opera House, San Francisco's NCTC and London's West End. It garnered multiple awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Philip Parsons Award. He was the youngest and only dual winner in consecutive years of the NSW Premier's Literary Award, having won for Strangers in Between at Griffin in 2005. Strangers in Between was revived in Melbourne, Sydney and London's West End in 2018.
His most recent stage play was Packer & Sons, a dramatisation of three generations of Australia's famous tycoon family. It broke a ten-year box office record at Belvoir and won the Australia Council National Theatre Award. He is the writer for the upcoming stage musical for John Farnham and Michael Cassel productions. His next play will be a stage adaptation of On The Beach for Sydney Theatre Company in July 2023.
