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Christine Murphy is a scriptwriter from Belfast. She has written for several long-running TV series, including Emmerdale, Doctors and Eastenders and the Britbox/BBC TV series Hope Street.
Her debut feature film Cup Cake premiered at the Belfast Film Festival in 2010 and won the Audience Award. In 2013, she won the Irish Writers’ Guild Zebbie Award for her BBC Radio 4 drama Kicking the Air starring Vicky McClure. In 2024, she was nominated for the RTS NI Writer Award for Hope Street.
She is an alumnus of the prestigious eQuinoxe Europe feature script development programme, MediaXchange’s Series Accelerator showrunner programme, David Puttnam’s Creative Producing Masterclass and the NFTS Creative Business Development & Leadership for Producers course. She was a WFTV mentee in 2022 and was mentored by Sharon Horgan.
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MENOPAUSE IS MURDER Pilot Episode (Fabel) Commissioned by C4 Drama
THE SATURDAY BOYS Pilot Episode (Bold Girl Productions)
LOST IN FRANCE Episode 4 (Saffron Moon)
BLUE LIGHTS 3 (2024) Writers’ Room (Two Cities & Gallagher Films)
COMMITTED (2024) Writers’ Room (Fabel)
LOST IN FRANCE (2024) Writers’ Room (Saffron Moon)
HOPE STREET 3 (2023) Episodes 3 & 12 (PGMTV and Long Story TV)
HOPE STREET 2 (2022) Episodes 3 & 7 (PGMTV and Long Story TV)
HOPE STREET 1 (2021) Episodes 3 & 8 (PGMTV and Long Story TV)
TOUT VA BIEN (2021) Short audio play for the MAC Theatre.
REZA Feature adaptation of my radio play KICKING THE AIR. In development with Contrast Film, Switzerland.
THE SECRET PEACEMAKER Feature script of Fr Alec Reid’s key role behind the scenes in the Northern Irish peace process. Commissioned by New Decade and developed with NI Screen.
DANI’S CASTLE (2013) ‘Hey Mr DJ’ episode (CBBC/The Foundation)
KICKING THE AIR (2012) Afternoon Play starring Vicky McClure & Sophia Myles. Produced by Heather Larmour for BBC Radio NI (BBC Radio 4)
Winner: Writers’ Guild of Ireland Award for Best Radio Script 2013
HOPE DIES LAST (2011) Short stage play about the war in Kosovo performed at the Arcola Theatre London’s Miniaturists Series.
SEACHT Series 4 (2010) Irish language drama – 2 episodes (BBC NI/TG4)
CUP CAKE (2009) original feature film starring Michelle Fairley & Adam Best
Winner: NI Screen Low Budget Feature Fiction Fund 2009
Winner: Audience Award, Belfast Film Festival, April 2010
Winner: First Place, Best Feature, Rhode Island Film Festival, August 2010
Winner: Grand Prize, Best Feature, North Country Film Festival, October 2010
SEACHT Series 3 (2009) Irish language drama – 1 episode (BBC NI/TG4)
BEL’S BOYS (2006) Network children’s sit-com – 1 episode (Endemol)
DOCTORS (2005) ‘Best Eaten Cold’ episode (BBC1)
EMMERDALE (2003-2004) 13 episodes (Granada/ITV)
GYPSY BABY (2003) Treatment nominated for the Dennis Potter Award.
EASTENDERS (2002) 1 episode (BBC1)
MILLTOWN Feature about joyriding and punishment beatings in Belfast.