Molly Beach Murphy

Molly Beach Murphy

Writer of plays + musicals

Texas | NYC | Birmingham, UK

Photo: JJ Darling

MOLLY BEACH MURPHY is a writer of plays and musicals originally from Galveston, Texas. Her work has been developed in New York City with New York Theater Workshop, New York Stage & Film, Williamstown Theater Festival, Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions, The Orchard Project, The Civilian’s, Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund, Yale Institute for Music Theater, NYMF, Pipeline Theater Company. Regionally, Molly’s work has been developed with The Alley Theatre among many others. Molly was The Drama League’s Beatrice Terry Resident, a member of Page 73’s I-73 writing group, a New Georges Audrey Resident and a semi-finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Her essay and personal writings have been published in American Theatre Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Hairpin, & The Santa Ana River Review

Molly began her theatre career in NYC as a director’s assistant. Working On and Off-Broadway for directors such as Tina Landau, Jo Bonney, Patricia McGregor, Regina Taylor among many others. She then worked as an assistant to the playwrights John Guare and Suzan-Lori Parks. It was under their stewardship that Molly began to create her own plays and musicals.

Contact: Derek Zasky, William Morris Endeavor: dsz@wmeagency.com


Plays

Mother at Arles

Alley Theatre All New Festival | New Georges Audrey Residency

IKE

New York Stage & Film | Drama League Beatrice Terry Residency | Page 73 Interstate 73 Writer’s Group

THE AIR GOT THICK

The Alley at Ucross Foundation


MUSICALS

COWBOY BOB

Jackie Burns and Ashley Perez Flanagan. Photograph by Lynn Lane. Alley Theatre Production 2023

Word Premiere production, The Alley Theatre March 2023 | Houston Chronicle Review | Texas Monthly Review

Developed at: New York Theater Workshop’s Adelphi Residency | Ars Nova | Yale Institute for Music Theater | UArts Polyphone | New York Stage & Film | The Village Theater

CREDIT

Developed at: Mercury Store Residency | Civilians’ R&D Group | The Orchard Project


 


contact

Derek Zasky, William Morris Endeavor: dsz@wmeagency.com

Direct: mollybeachmurphy@gmail.com


former lives

Kiddie Pool Lifeguard

Cocktail Waitress at The Galway Hooker

Temp Secretary to the worst kind of Wall Street banker you can think of

Temp Secretary to deeply kind Wall Street bankers

Freight Elevator Operator

Table-side Filet-er of whole flounder at Landry’s.