BIO
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“Fleur Murphy’s story-telling sparkles… Murphy writes whirling, unfiltered emotion most powerfully” - Australian Stage Review.
"Fleur writes with acuity, elan and a keen awareness of our shared cultural flashpoints. More than that, there is real heart and a searching honesty in her work." - Chris Mead
Originally from country Victoria and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Fleur is a playwright and theatre producer. Most recently her award-nominated play The Fence premiered as part of Darebin Arts Speakeasy’s 2023 mainstage season and is touring locally and nationally throughout 2024 and 2025. Her immersive theatre production ROARING premiered in July 2024 to sold-out performances and widespread audience acclaim.
In 2022 her play Hearth, which was selected for the 2022 VCAA Theatre Studies Playlist, opened at La Mama Courthouse in Melbourne and toured regionally throughout Victoria. The play was also longlisted for the Theatre503 Award in London, and shortlisted for the 2021 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. That same year her adaptation of Janne Teller’s award-winning young adult novel, Nothing, premiered at fortyfivedownstairs under the direction of Alonso Pineda.
Her other plays include Shadows of Angels, which premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival before travelling to Melbourne and regional Victoria in 2013. An immersive staging of the play was later produced by TBC Theatre in 2014 and was set within the historic gaol cells of Melbourne’s City Watch House. Shadows of Angels was later produced by Anglesea Performing Arts in 2021 and toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023. Other plays include My Country for a Peach (Vessel Arts & Arts Centre Melbourne 2016), and Don’t Say Bubba (Anglesea Performing Arts 2022, and shortlisted Top 10 for the 2023 Lysicrates Prize).
Her plays have been nominated for various awards including the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights award (finalist), The Lysicrates Prize (Top 10), The Griffin Award (longlist), The Monte Miller Award (longlist), and the Theatre 503 Award in London (longlist). Her short film, Rain for Morgan, won multiple awards around the world including Winner of Best Narrative Short (Festivus Film Festival Denver, Colorado 2011), Winner of Best International Short Film (Ireland International Film Festival 2010), and Winner of Best Sound Achievement in a Short Film (Australian Sound Guild Awards 2010).
Fleur is currently developing a new dramedy television series, alongside another immersive show and a stage play. She is a founding member of the independent theatre company 29 Scenes and is working with Director/Producer Tom Royce-Hampton of Brickwood Films on the film adaptation of The Fence which will star Louisa Mignone.
Fleur holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance – Acting and a Master's in Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts (2019). In 2020, she received Career Development funding from Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council), which supported an 18-month mentorship with award-winning playwright Tom Holloway. She has also interned with the Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric readings and was a 2022 Theatre Works Associate Artist.
"Fleur writes with acuity, elan and a keen awareness of our shared cultural flashpoints. More than that, there is real heart and a searching honesty in her work." - Chris Mead
Originally from country Victoria and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Fleur is a playwright and theatre producer. Most recently her award-nominated play The Fence premiered as part of Darebin Arts Speakeasy’s 2023 mainstage season and is touring locally and nationally throughout 2024 and 2025. Her immersive theatre production ROARING premiered in July 2024 to sold-out performances and widespread audience acclaim.
In 2022 her play Hearth, which was selected for the 2022 VCAA Theatre Studies Playlist, opened at La Mama Courthouse in Melbourne and toured regionally throughout Victoria. The play was also longlisted for the Theatre503 Award in London, and shortlisted for the 2021 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. That same year her adaptation of Janne Teller’s award-winning young adult novel, Nothing, premiered at fortyfivedownstairs under the direction of Alonso Pineda.
Her other plays include Shadows of Angels, which premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival before travelling to Melbourne and regional Victoria in 2013. An immersive staging of the play was later produced by TBC Theatre in 2014 and was set within the historic gaol cells of Melbourne’s City Watch House. Shadows of Angels was later produced by Anglesea Performing Arts in 2021 and toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023. Other plays include My Country for a Peach (Vessel Arts & Arts Centre Melbourne 2016), and Don’t Say Bubba (Anglesea Performing Arts 2022, and shortlisted Top 10 for the 2023 Lysicrates Prize).
Her plays have been nominated for various awards including the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights award (finalist), The Lysicrates Prize (Top 10), The Griffin Award (longlist), The Monte Miller Award (longlist), and the Theatre 503 Award in London (longlist). Her short film, Rain for Morgan, won multiple awards around the world including Winner of Best Narrative Short (Festivus Film Festival Denver, Colorado 2011), Winner of Best International Short Film (Ireland International Film Festival 2010), and Winner of Best Sound Achievement in a Short Film (Australian Sound Guild Awards 2010).
Fleur is currently developing a new dramedy television series, alongside another immersive show and a stage play. She is a founding member of the independent theatre company 29 Scenes and is working with Director/Producer Tom Royce-Hampton of Brickwood Films on the film adaptation of The Fence which will star Louisa Mignone.
Fleur holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance – Acting and a Master's in Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts (2019). In 2020, she received Career Development funding from Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council), which supported an 18-month mentorship with award-winning playwright Tom Holloway. She has also interned with the Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric readings and was a 2022 Theatre Works Associate Artist.
