Colin Murphy

Colin Murphy has written for stage, television, film and radio, and has been nominated for an Irish Theatre Award, an Irish Film and Television Academy award and a Celtic Media Award; his radio documentaries have received a Prix Marulic silver award and a New York Festivals bronze award. Two of his plays are published by Bloomsbury.

With Fishamble Theatre Company, he has written a series of political documentary dramas, two of which, Guaranteed! and Haughey/Gregory, are published by Bloomsbury. Guaranteed! was acclaimed as “a national event” by the Irish Times; it and its sequel, Bailed Out!, “injected a new and vital ingredient into the Irish theatre landscape”, wrote the Irish Independent.

His Easter Rising play, Inside the GPO, was described as “deeply moving and utterly memorable… deserves to be remembered as pivotal” by the Sunday Independent.

Colin is best known for his series of plays for Fishamble about Irish political history – recently collected in the volume Colin Murphy’s Political Plays, published by Methuen Drama. The United States vs Ulysses will tour Ireland in 2027, after a successful off-Broadway run at the Irish Arts Center, New York, in 2025. His documentary A Day in May, directed by Colm Quinn and produced by John Kelleher Media, is currently available on the RTÉ Player. He is the 2026 Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub. He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Independent.