Elaine Murphy (playwright)

Elaine Murphy
OccupationPlaywright
NationalityIrish
Notable awardsCarol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award (2009)

Elaine Murphy is an Irish playwright. Her play Little Gem, about three Irish women, won the Fishamble New Writing Award in 2008 and the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award in 2009.[1][2][3] In 2008 Murphy won the Stewart Parker BBC Northern Ireland Drama Award.[4] Her second play Shush premiered in June 2013 at the Abbey Theatre.[5]

  1. ^ "Fishamble New Writing Award".
  2. ^ "The Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award". Archived from the original on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  3. ^ Charles Isherwood, "3 Irish Women Bound by Blood and Behavior", The New York Times, 8 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Awards". stewartparkertrust.
  5. ^ Keating, Sara. "Elaine Murphy: Following up a gem of a play on the national stage". The Irish Times.