Keara Murphy

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Keara Murphy

Keara Patricia Murphy (* 1967 ) is a Scottish stand-up comedian , actress and playwright from Glasgow . Her father was a Scottish optician and her mother was from Belfast. She herself described the Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor Billy Connolly as an early influence .

Career

Murphy has worked as a housing officer with the Glasgow City Council, a case manager at the Hamish Allan Center, and a theater educator . In 1999 she moved to Edinburgh, where she graduated from Queen Margaret University College with a degree in drama with honors in 2002 . From 2003 to 2005 she lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe and ran a comedy club in Budapest. She starred in the films A Best Man to Fall in Love with and Joy Division (2006). Keara Murphy wrote three pieces about the Scottish national poet Robert Burns and made three programs about him on BBC Radio Scotland .

In 2012, Murphy's show Flypaper for Freaks at the Glasgow Comedy Festival focused on their unsuccessful relationships. In 2013, her comedy series The Shark's Mouth was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland. Mistress MacKenzie and Friends , a spin-off series, followed in 2014.

Murphy's 2016 play The Secret Sex Life of Robert Burns discusses some of his romantic affairs from the point of view of affected women and is Murphy's Blue Eyed Lassie Company 's first production to promote female artists in Scotland.

Pieces

  • Mice and Women
  • The Bard and I.
  • The Secret Sex Life of Robert Burns

Documentation

  • The Secret Sex Life of Robert Burns
  • The Secret Tax Life of Robert Burns
  • The Secret Rock 'n' Roll Life of Robert Burns

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dominic Smith: Keara Murphy's Travellin 'Circus, The Quadrant, Brighton, May 20 to May 23 . In: The Argus . May 14, 2010. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Brian Donaldson: The List: Feb. 2, 2012 (66/132) . February 2, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Histrionics of the Fringe . Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Keara Murphy . In: IMDb . Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Keara Murphy . Glasgow City Council. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Keara Patricia Murphy: Flypaper For Freaks . In: The Skinny , March 2, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2017. 
  7. ↑ New play reveals' harsh fate 'of Robert Burns' lassies . In: The Scotsman , January 17, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Keara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Keara Patricia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish stand-up comedian, actress and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1967