Mikel Murfi

Mikel Murfi

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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Mikel Murfi Movies

  • 2014
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    Jimmy's Hall

    Jimmy's Hall

    6.7 2014 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    After Midnight

    After Midnight

    5 1990 HD

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

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  • 2009
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    The Ballad of Kid Kanturk

    The Ballad of Kid Kanturk

    1 2009 HD

    The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of...

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  • 2003
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    Intermission

    Intermission

    6.17 2003 HD

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and...

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  • 1999
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    Sweety Barrett

    Sweety Barrett

    5.8 1999 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    The Overcoat

    The Overcoat

    8 2018 HD

    An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas,...

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  • 1991
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    The Commitments

    The Commitments

    7.3 1991 HD

    Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First...

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  • 1998
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    The Butcher Boy

    The Butcher Boy

    6.8 1998 HD

    Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

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  • 1991
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    3 Joes

    3 Joes

    1 1991 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Ella Enchanted

    Ella Enchanted

    6.5 2004 HD

    Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called...

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  • 2023
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    SisterS

    SisterS

    6.9 2023 HD

    Two women, one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father.

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