Mikel Murfi

História

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.

Filmes

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.
O Salão de Jimmy
Tommy
Depois de viver exilado dez anos nos Estados unidos, Jimmy Gralton volta à sua terra para ajudar a mãe e cuidar da quinta da família. A Irlanda que encontra, dez anos depois da guerra civil, tem um novo governo e muitas esperanças no ar… Após as solicitações por parte dos jovens do Condado de Leitrim, Jimmy, apesar das suas reticências em provocar os seus velhos inimigos, como a Igreja ou os grandes proprietários, decide reabrir o seu "Hall", um lugar aberto para todos, onde se pode dançar, estudar, ou conversar. De novo, o sucesso é imediato. Mas a influência crescente de Jimmy e as suas ideias progressistas não agradam a todos na aldeia e as tensões acabam por reaparecer…
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.
Dias Selvagens
Rabbit Man
A partir do fim do relacionamento de John (Cillian Murphy) e Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), o filme avança misturando amor, roubo a banco, sequestro e vingança. Surpreendente e imprevisível, "Dias Selvagens" foge do lugar comum e conquista o espectador por sua originalidade. Investigando o poder que cada um tem em interferir na vida dos outros, o filme é um passatempo inventivo e inquieto, qualidades que não costumam caminhar juntas.
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.
Nó na Garganta
Buttsy
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
The Commitments - Loucos Pela Fama
Music Journalist
É um conceito e tanto: um filme sincero, divertido e totalmente convincente sobre as vitórias pequenas, mas deliciosas, e os equívocos fatais dos jovens de uma banda de soul saída diretamente das áreas pobres de Dublin, estrelado por cantores e músicos de verdade interpretando grandes sucessos de Rhythm & Blues dos anos sessenta.
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.