Theatrical Resume - Short Form

MIKE MURPHY

112 Lovering Street

Medway, MA  02053-2326

mikeandzachary@gmail.com

BLOG: audioauthor.blogspot.com

FILM CREDITS

Dark Chocolate (short; 2015)

Hotline (short; 2020)  

PUBLISHING CREDITS
Hypnos, Dime Show Review, The Flash Fiction Press, Max Blood's Mausoleum, Zeroflash, Inwood Indiana Press/Prolific Press, Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, Gathering Storm Magazine, Asymmetry Fiction, Theme of Absence, Fabula Argentea, Visions with Voices, Lyonesse Fiction, Buckshot Magazine, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, The Literary Hatchet, The 5th Di..., Feed Your Monster, Eastern Iowa Review, Jitter Press, Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast, Crimson Streets, Disturbed Digest, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Silver Blade Magazine, Communicators League, Mura, Mystery Weekly Magazine, Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, Wild Musette Journal, Drabble Harvest, Amazing Stories Online, Gallows Hill Magazine, The Inky Cave, Emerging Worlds, Dark Moments, Mura, Sirius Science Fiction, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Distant Shore Publishing, Dirty Girls Magazine, The Centropic Oracle, Sanitarium Magazine, Synthetic Reality Magazine, Short Story Town, The Weird and Whatnot, Page & Spine, SFS Stories, Timber Ghost Press, The Crypt, Wyldblood, The Vanishing Point Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, JOURN-E, The Martian Wave, Sci-Fi Shorts, Illustrated Worlds, and With Candlelight 

ANTHOLOGY CREDITS
Dime Show Review Volume 2, Issues 1-3, The Pop Machine, Chronos, 666, Sins and Other Worlds, Year One, DrabbleDark, Scary Stuff, On Time, Drabbledark II, Hundred Word Horror: Beneath, Hundred Word Horror: The Deep, The Lost Librarian's Grave, Spawn of War and Deathiness, Paradoxical Pets, Short Horror Stories, Planetside, Borne in the Blood, The Devil You Know Better, The Kafka Protocol & the Burden of Compliance, A Little Fantasy Everywhere, and Cosmic Crime Stories

AUDIO CREDITS

• (JIM FRENCH’S) IMAGINATION THEATER: 6 scripts
• [1stdraft] PRODUCTIONS: 2 scripts
• AURAL STAGE STUDIOS: 2 scripts
• CIRCUS-13 PRESENTS: 3 scripts
• COLONIAL RADIO THEATRE ON THE AIR: 24 scripts
• COOPERANTEM AUDIO: 1 script
• CORNUCOPIA RADIO (UK): 1 script
• DREAM REALM SHOWCASE: 1 script
• FOOL’S GOLD THEATRE PRODUCTIONS: 1 script
• GIANT GNOME PRODUCTIONS: 1 script
• GYPSY AUDIO: 1 script
• HARRY STRANGE RADIO DRAMA: 1 script
• HARVEST AUDIO: 1 script
• HoH AUDIO WORKS: 4 scripts
• ICEBOX RADIO THEATER: 2 scripts
• JIM NOLAN, PRIVATE EYE: 22 scripts
• LAKES AREA RADIO THEATRE: 20 scripts
• MIDDLEBURY RADIO THEATER OF THRILLS AND SUSPENSE: 1 script
• MILLY FOSTER, MACABRE INVESTIGATOR: 6 scripts
• MISFITS AUDIO SPECIALS: 8 scripts
• NEW RADIO THEATER: 4 scripts
• NOTHER AUDIO: 1 script
• ONE ACT PLAYERS: 1 script
• PRECARIOUS AUDIO THEATER: 4 scripts
• PULP-POURRI THEATER: 2 scripts
• RADIO THEATRE PROJECT: 9 scripts
• SCATTERED SOUNDS PRODUCTIONS: 6 scripts
• SEMINAR: 3 scripts
• SHOESTRING RADIO THEATRE: 12 scripts
• STRANGE STORIES: 20 scripts
• THE ADMINISTRATION: 15 scripts
• THE CORNER BAR ON ALPHA PRIME: 3 scripts
• THE ONLINE STAGE (UK; produced for Audible): 17 scripts
• THE QUANTUM DOOR: 3 scripts
• TWILIGHT AUDIO THEATRE: 2 scripts
• TWILIGHT THEATRE (NZ): 1 script
• WASHINGTON AUDIO THEATER: 1 script

AWARDS:

2024: 

- Served as a judge for the audio drama entries to the Atlanta Fringe Festival. 

2023: 

- Served as a judge for the audio drama entries to the Atlanta Fringe Festival. 

2021:

- The Bullying Squad TV pilot script is a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition.

2020:
- Feature-length screenplay Die Laughing named as a semi-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting 2020 Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.
- “Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule” wins second prize in the Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition.

2019:
- Three awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Winner - Short Stories category [“The Gift”];  Finalist - TV pilot category ["Solutions, Inc."]; and Winner - TV Pilot category [“Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator”].
2018:
- Four awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Winner - Short Stories category [“The Return of Cosmo Draper”];  Finalist - Short Screenplay category [“The Curious Affair at the Arkwright Club”]; Finalist - Short Stories category [“The Day Hondo Found That Rare Bottle of Wine at Sullivan’s Tap and Eating Establishment”]; and Finalist - TV Pilot category [“Noah’s Bark”].
2017:

- Three awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - Short Screenplay category ["Olivia's Swing"]; Finalist - Short Stories category ["Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule"]; and Semi-Finalist - Short Stories category ["How Melvin Saved Christmas"]
- “The Choice” places third in Zeroflash’s March flash fiction contest.

- "Escape!" wins Zeroflash’s June flash fiction contest.

2016: 
- JIM NOLAN, PRIVATE EYE wins the Audio Verse Award for Best Original, Long-Form, Self-Contained Production. 
- “The Bullying Squad” is a Moondance International Film Festival winner in the TV pilot category.
- “The Forever Pill” is a Moondance International Film Festival semi-finalist in the Audioplay category.
- “Thanks for the Memories” is a semi-finalist in the 2016 Neoverse Short Story Writing Competition. 
2015:

- “This Guy Walks into a Bar” (as produced by Pulp-Pourri Theatre) wins an Audio Verse Award in the category Best Writing of an Original, Long-Form, Standalone Production.

- Dark Chocolate wins the Audience Choice Award as the best film in the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre at the San Diego Film Consortium Awards, beating out 11 other films.
2014:
- Won two Audio Verse Awards for writing JIM NOLAN, PRIVATE EYE (Best Long-Form Writing of an Original Production) and “Burying Uncle Gustav” (Best Short-Form Writing of a Self-Contained Original Piece).
- STRANGE STORIES wins the Audio Verse Award for Best Anthology or Variety Show of the Year.
2013:
- “The Return of Cosmo Draper” wins the Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition.
2012:

- “The Curious Affair at the Arkwright Club” places eighth on New Radio Theater’s top ten countdown of plays aired by them.

- “The Pen is Mightier” wins the New York Old Time Radio script-writing contest.
2011:

- The short film script of “Professor Hoyt’s Remarkable Elixir” is a semi-finalist in the 2011 Shriekfest Horror Film competition.

- The short film script of “The Candy Man” is named among the top 125 short film scripts in the Golden Brad awards.
2010:

- Won first prize in the Friends of Old-Time Radio script-writing competition with “King of the Beasts.”
2009:

- Two honorable mention awards in IMAGINATION THEATER’s script-writing competition for “A Heavenly Price” and “12:30.”
2008:

- Second-place winner in Friends of Old-Time Radio writing contest with “A Heavenly Price.”