SUSAN MURPHY is a Jersey City-based performer, writer, and director who has worked on the stage and in music since the age of 10.  A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, her work in New York has often been seen at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, as well as at Joe’s Pub, Westbeth Theatre Center, Classic Stage Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, HERE, Pangea, and the Greenwich House Theatre, among other venues.  She has also performed at Carnegie Hall, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Time/Space Limited Warehouse in Hudson, NY, the Landmark Loew’s Jersey, and the famed Troubadour in Los Angeles.

 

Murphy’s diverse stage roles range from a High-Heeled Woman in the original production of Fame Takes a Holiday to dual roles in the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, from the lone and lonely singer in Heidi Latsky’s cutting edge dance event Club Riot to the uptight suburban neighbor Claire in Marco Calvani’s drama The View from Up Here. 

 

Her directing credits include a stage adaptation of the cult film Harold and Maude, Durang’s Medea and The Actor’s Nightmare, an original theatrical adaptation of James Hurst's short story The Scarlet Ibis, and the surrealistic one-act Defying Gravity.

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As a writer and producer of her own work, she has sought to blur the boundaries of music and theatre to create “performance memoir.” Her most expansive piece, Girl/Group: A Daughter’s Tale, evolved over the course of a decade, premiered as a full-length play at La MaMa, and is currently in development as a limited series. 

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