Mikel Murfi

Born: None

Mikel Murfi is from Sligo and trained in Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.  He has played in The Playboy of the Western World, The Morning After Optimism, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.  Other acting credits include The New Electric Ballroom, Lyndie’s Got a Gun, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Druid, Galway), The Chairs (Blue Raincoat, Sligo), The Cure (Half Moon Theatre, Cork), Stokehauling, Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday, Macbeth, God’s Gift and The White Headed Boy(Barabbas), Studs, Melting Penguins (Passion Machine), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Rough Magic) and The Tender Trap (Pigsback). He played in The Lyric Hammersmith, London in Desire Under The Elms, on which he also was the Movement Director. As a director he most recently worked on The Second Coming (a Yeats based aerial- dance work) with Fidget Feet for The Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo. He worked with Fishamble/Galway Arts Festival on The Great Goat Bubble. He co-directed Ruth 66 for Fourth Leaf Theatre. He devised and directed The Poor Little Boy With No Arms at The Lir Academy with the cast. For Red Kettle he directed The Country Girls by Edna O Brien. He devised and directed It Only Ever Happens in the Movies with John Taite and the cast of the National Youth Theatre. He directed Manchan Magan’s Focal Point for TEAM. For the Abbey he directed Arrah Na Pogue and B for Baby. For Druid he has directed Penelope and The Walworth Farce.  Other directing credits include Diamonds in the Soil, The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy for Macnas, Falling out of Love, Yew Tree Productions, Trad, Galway Arts Festival and The Lonesome West, Lyric Theatre, Belfast.  He was Movement Director on the Landmark Productions/Galway Arts Festival production of Misterman. He also tours these days with his one-man show The Man In The Woman’s Shoes.


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The Commitments

as Music Journalist
Released: 1991-08-14

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band...

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Intermission

as Rabbit Man
Released: 2003-08-29

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops,...

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The Butcher Boy

as Buttsy
Released: 1998-02-20

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with...

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Jimmy's Hall

as Tommy
Released: 2014-05-30

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet...

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Sweety Barrett

as Uniform Two
Released: 1999-04-16

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world,...

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The Ballad of Kid Kanturk

as Kid Kanturk
Released: 2009-11-01

The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A...

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The Overcoat

as Commissioner (voice)
Released: 2018-07-14

An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves...

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After Midnight

as Michaeleen
Released: 1990-01-01

An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.

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3 Joes

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

On a summer morning, three young men named Joe have a go at doing a bit of housework.

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SisterS

as Séamus
First aired: 2023-03-30

Two women, one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, discover they are half-sisters and...

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