Genne Murphy
Playwright
Genne Murphy (she/her) is a playwright and arts educator. Her work has been developed with Page 73, Azuka Theatre, Yale Cabaret/Yale School of Drama, The American Playwriting Foundation, Great Plains Theater Conference, PlayPenn, Philly Fringe, SF PlayGround and Theater Masters. She has worked with student writers in Philadelphia and New Haven, and is an alum and former staffer at Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Genne was a past recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Social Change grant. She cofounded, with Kelli Dunham, the NYC storytelling series Queer Memoir. Her selected plays include Giantess, The Skinny Killer Inside, My Obsession with Vivian, and The Girl is Chained. Azuka produced her first play, Hope Street and Other Lonely Places. Genne is a winner of the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Playwrights and the Theater Masters Visionary Playwrights Award. She was a finalist for the Relentless Award. gennemurphy.com