Carol Murphy is an artist, writer, filmmaker and performer from Belfast. She studied
\nFine Art Painting at the University of Northumbria, Ateliers \u201963 in Amsterdam and
\nexhibited in Europe. An MA in Film Theory; work in radio at BBC London and film
\njournalism for magazines such as Film Ireland, Flux Magazine and Filmwaves
\nbrought her on the road to short film production. Murphy produced the short films
\nAutomaton and Tell it to the Fishes starring Dylan Moran and Gerry McSorley.
\nAfter attending the 2006 Berlinale Talent Campus, Murphy wrote, directed, and
\nproduced numerous shorts, many of which were internationally co-produced with
\nFrench producer, Jennifer Sabbah. They include Mustard, Nightclubbing, The
\nDissenter and Painkiller which is part of Rankin\u2019s Collabor8te 2013 and was long
\nlisted for a BAFTA.<\/p>\n

In 2008 Murphy attended the Rutger Hauer Filmfactory in Rotterdam and the Script
\nDevelopment Programme at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam with a feature project,
\nnow completed and called Golden Boy. In 2009 she attended Script & Pitch at the
\nTurino Film Lab with the same feature project, which was also part of EAVE.
\nIn 2011 Murphy wrote and produced Finbar\u2019s Private Netherland for the Pick N Mix
\nTheatre Festival at the Mac in Belfast. In 2018 she completed the First Draft &
\nBeyond screenwriter\u2019s lab, run by Screen Training Ireland, with a feature period
\ndrama script, now complete, called Sailortown. She also has a comedy feature
\nproject called Unreadable. Murphy wrote two drafts of her horror Sci Fi Thriller
\nfeature, The Silent Tide with Fantastic Films in Dublin, development funded by NI
\nScreen and Screen Ireland.<\/p>\n

In 2020, after watching Hip Hop Evolution on Netflix during lockdown, Murphy
\nreturned to The Body & Blood, an idea she had in 2008, and wrote it in verse. In
\n2021 she shot it in her bedroom on her iPhone. She launched it online in January
\n2022 after an online video campaign. The first live one woman performance was at
\nThe Black Box in Belfast in May 2022. In Feb 2023 she performed The Body & Blood
\nat VAULT Festival in London before performing it at The Cathedral Quarter Arts
\nFestival; The Open House Festival at The Courthouse in Bangor; The Lyric Lounge
\nin Belfast and at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin all in 2023.<\/p>\n

Murphy performs music and verse in Belfast performance and Art Spaces as The
\nVigilante Cannibal Nun with a growing body of songs. In September 2024 she
\nlaunched The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt comedy horror podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol Murphy is an artist, writer, filmmaker and performer from Belfast. She studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Northumbria, Ateliers \u201963 in Amsterdam and exhibited in Europe. An MA in Film Theory; work in radio at BBC London and film journalism for magazines such as Film Ireland, Flux Magazine and Filmwaves brought her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dt_portfolio_category":[96],"dt_portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-38328","dt_portfolio","type-dt_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_portfolio_category-entertainment-law-clients","dt_portfolio_category-96","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n