Darren Murphy is a Dublin-based playwright, essayist, and academic, originally from Aldershot.
He has been produced in the West End, Off-Broadway, Dublin, Derry, and Edinburgh.
Plays include: X’ntigone for Prime Cut at the MAC, Belfast; Bunny’s Vendetta (commissioned for the inaugural UK City of Culture, Derry, 2013); Irish Blood, English Heart, for Trafalgar Studios, West End; and Tabloid Caligula, at the Arcola in London and as part of the Off-Broadway Festival at E59E, New York.
He was an associate playwright at the Abbey Theatre in 2018 and is currently under commission to the Lime Tree in Limerick.
His essay, The Playwright & the Pugilist, was published in The Tangerine, and his recent article about authenticity and the London-Irish play was published in the Irish Times. He completed a creative practice PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2021, where he was appointed a Ciaran Carson Writing in the City Fellow 2022 – 23, for the Seamus Heaney Centre.
He has taught playwriting at Queen’s University, for the Irish Writers Centre, the Abbey Theatre, the Griffith College for CAPA – the Global Education Network, and is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at DCU.
His plays are published by Methuen and Oberon.
