John Murphy is a writer, director, producer, and actor based in Vancouver. In his acting career, he has performed in theaters throughout Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. In 2007, he was nominated for a Jessie Award for best actor for his role in The Optimists. Murphy co-founded Gut-Wrench, a Vancouver sketch comedy troupe, which operated from 1998 to 2003. That same year, he wrote and starred in Maniac, a one-man sketch comedy show that premiered at the Nakai Comedy Arts Festival. He has written and directed an adaptation of Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and his new play, True Story, is set to premiere at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in the fall of 2008. Murphy is also a co-founder of ( r )evolution theatre, which he established alongside his friend and creative partner, Jonathan Ryder.
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