Nick Murphy (writer)

Nick Vincent Murphy (born 23 October 1977) is an Irish screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for his work on the TV comedy series Moone Boy (2012–15), the feature film Hideaways (2011), and the Moone Boy novels.

Murphy was born and raised in Kilkenny, Ireland. He was educated at Kilkenny College and then studied English and History at Trinity College Dublin (1996–2000) and was very active in the drama society Players. In 2001 he did a Master's in Film Production at Dublin Institute of Technology where he met Vicki Parks whom he later married. They currently live in Los Angeles and have two sons.

While at university he directed several theatre productions including Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman, which was later staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 1999, produced by the actor Chris O'Dowd, the first of many collaborations between the pair.

In 2001, he wrote and directed his first short film Waiting Room while studying at Dublin Institute of Technology. That year he also won a National Student Drama Award for Best Film Script for Dead Leg, which he co-wrote with his brother Luke. He worked as a staff writer on the TV3 series The Offside Show (2005), and directed and edited a short documentary, Big Massive Protest (2007). He was a co-writer of the acclaimed TG4 drama series The Running Mate, which won Best Single Drama at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards and was also nominated for Best Television Script.

In 2010 his first feature film, Hideaways (2011) was produced in Ireland. The French/Irish/Swedish co-production was directed by Agnès Merlet, produced by Jean Luc Ormières, and featured actors Rachel Hurd-Wood and Harry Treadaway. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before being released in cinemas across France in 2011. It won the Méliès d’Argent award for best European film at the Strasbourg Film Festival.

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