Michael Murphy

His work covers a range of areas, including film, theatre, opera, video design and performance installation work. He has received numerous awards including a Fulbright, which allowed him to create a new media and performance installation (sleepwalker no. 1) in Ireland in March of 2012. Other recent work include video design for the musical Assassins, the play Everyman, and the writing and directing the fiction film What is Done.

His favorite classes to teach include Intro to Media Arts, which explores the different approaches taken by storytellers, artists and designers to time-based work, and Interdisciplinary Projects, which brings students from varied disciplines together to share their work and processes. His philosophy of teaching is based on his experience as the son of a building contractor who instilled the idea that works are constructed, and that learning happens most effectively through apprenticeship–learning with those who are making the work to which we aspire.