Matt Murray
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Website: https://mqlit.ca/playwrights/matt-murray/
Agent: Colin Rivers
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Photographer: Zak Kearns
Matt Murray’s a Toronto-based playwright, musical theatre book writer, and lyricist. Musicals include: Maggie – co-book, co-music, co-lyric (with acclaimed recording artist Johnny Reid). Grow – book writer (with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Going Under – book writer (with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Matt wrote six Ross Petty Holiday Pantomimes – Peter’s Final Flight!, Lil’ Red Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions, There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice in Winterland. A Christmas Carol was recorded for broadcast by CBC/Family Channel. Matt is set to write Canadian Stage Company’s premiere holiday Panto; a brand new adaptation of The Wizard Of OZ, in association with Ross Petty Productions. Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich, Remember, Maggy? (with Carol Anne Murray) and Chronicles Of Sarnia.