Mikel Murfi

Historia

Mikel Murfi is from Sligo and trained in Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.  He has played in The Playboy of the Western World, The Morning After Optimism, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.  Other acting credits include The New Electric Ballroom, Lyndie’s Got a Gun, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Druid, Galway), The Chairs (Blue Raincoat, Sligo), The Cure (Half Moon Theatre, Cork), Stokehauling, Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday, Macbeth, God’s Gift and The White Headed Boy(Barabbas), Studs, Melting Penguins (Passion Machine), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Rough Magic) and The Tender Trap (Pigsback). He played in The Lyric Hammersmith, London in Desire Under The Elms, on which he also was the Movement Director. As a director he most recently worked on The Second Coming (a Yeats based aerial- dance work) with Fidget Feet for The Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo. He worked with Fishamble/Galway Arts Festival on The Great Goat Bubble. He co-directed Ruth 66 for Fourth Leaf Theatre. He devised and directed The Poor Little Boy With No Arms at The Lir Academy with the cast. For Red Kettle he directed The Country Girls by Edna O Brien. He devised and directed It Only Ever Happens in the Movies with John Taite and the cast of the National Youth Theatre. He directed Manchan Magan’s Focal Point for TEAM. For the Abbey he directed Arrah Na Pogue and B for Baby. For Druid he has directed Penelope and The Walworth Farce.  Other directing credits include Diamonds in the Soil, The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy for Macnas, Falling out of Love, Yew Tree Productions, Trad, Galway Arts Festival and The Lonesome West, Lyric Theatre, Belfast.  He was Movement Director on the Landmark Productions/Galway Arts Festival production of Misterman. He also tours these days with his one-man show The Man In The Woman’s Shoes.

Películas

The Overcoat
Commissioner (voice)
An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.
Jimmy's Hall
Tommy
Cuenta la historia real de James Gralton, un activista y líder comunista irlandés que se convirtió en el único deportado político de la República de Irlanda.
The Ballad of Kid Kanturk
Kid Kanturk
The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of sell-out shows and the lows of incarceration for an act of cannibalism.
Intermission
Rabbit Man
La rotura de una pareja hace mezclarse a gente y eventos aparentemente sin relación. Actos delictivos y relaciones personales en una comedia urbana ambientada en el Dublín de nuestros días.
Sweety Barrett
Uniform Two
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
The Butcher Boy (Contracorriente)
Buttsy
Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) es un adolescente que vive en un ambiente familiar que frustra todos sus deseos y sus sueños. En pie de guerra contra la realidad que lo rodea, y dominado por un padre alcohólico (Stephen Rea) y una madre depresiva, Francie busca desesperadamente un refugio para olvidarse de su vida.
Los commitments
Music Journalist
Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), que vive a salto de mata en un barrio proletario de Dublín, está empeñado en hacer realidad un sueño: crear una banda y llevar la música soul a su ciudad. Para ello, publica un anuncio en un periódico local y empieza a seleccionar a jóvenes de vida precaria, pero de gran talento musical. Así nace el grupo The Commitments.
3 Joes
On a summer morning, three young men named Joe have a go at doing a bit of housework.
After Midnight
Michaeleen
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.