Colleen Murphy

location_on Ontario, CA

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Website: https://www.colleenmurphy.ca


Agent: Kensington Literary Representation, contact Michael Petrasek

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Photographer: Adrian Lyons

Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, and raised in Northern Ontario, Colleen Murphy won the 2016 and 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for her plays Pig Girl and The December Man / L’homme de décembre respectively. Both plays were also awarded a Carol Bolt Award. Other plays include The Breathing Hole (shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Carol Bolt Award), The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, Armstrong’s War, The Goodnight Bird, The Piper, and Beating Heart Cadaver (shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award). She’s also a librettist – Fantasma for composer lan Cusson, My Mouth On Your Heart for composer August Murphy-King, and Oksana G. for composer Aaron Gervais – and an award-winning filmmaker. Murphy has been Writer-in-Residence at seven universities and Playwright-in-Residence at two Canadian theatres as well as at Finborough Theatre in the UK. She is a member of the Order of Canada.

Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:

Armstrong's War

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Pig Girl

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The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius

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The Goodnight Bird

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The Breathing Hole

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The December Man

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The Piper

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All Other Destinations are Cancelled

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Beating Heart Cadaver

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