Matthew Ellis
Murphy

2009-2010 PlayMakers Roles

Nicholas Nickleby - Mr. Wititterly, Walter Bray, Ensemble

 

PlayMakers: The Little Prince, Pericles, Amadeus, Romeo and Juliet.

 

Regional: Chain of Fools (Guthrie Theater); The Wonder of It All, Remembering Joe, Down to the Wire (Outagamie Plays on History).

 

UNC:

As actor: The Flu Season (Professional Actor Training Program).

As director: Anatomy of Gray, The Burial at Thebes (DDA Undergraduate Productions).

 

Music: 

As composer: The Little Prince (PlayMakers); Chain of Fools (Guthrie Theater); Somay Ku: A Uganda Tennis Story (RexPix Media).

As music director: The Music Man (PlayMakers Summer Youth Conservatory).

 

Training: Professional Actor Training Program, UNC-Chapel Hill; A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training; BA and BMus, Lawrence University of Wisconsin.

 

Awards: Best Original Score, The Little Prince, 2007, The Independent Weekly; Phi Beta Kappa; Frederich M. Koch Award in Dramatic Art; F. Theodore Cloak Award in Theatre Arts.