101 Stage Adaptations

Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation by Vincent Murphy (Ep. 4)

September 29, 2022 Vincent Murphy Episode 4
101 Stage Adaptations
Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation by Vincent Murphy (Ep. 4)
Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How panhandling as a teen directly led Vincent to his career in theatre 
  • His book, Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation, and the six building blocks of a great adaptation or any play, really
  •  The playwright exchange program he wishes would have a second life

And more! Ahem, listen for all those name drops - they hit hard!

All About Our Guest

For over four decades, Vincent Murphy was an artistic producing director of three acclaimed theaters, with a professional career of collaboration on more than 200 productions in the US, Canada, South America, and Europe. As a director, playwright, actor, designer, choreographer, and artistic director, he has garnered more than forty major awards in directing, acting, playwriting, and teaching.

Murphy has devoted much of his career to championing the development of new plays. At Theater Emory, where he is a full professor in the arts, he developed a biennial Brave New Works series. He created the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory where over one hundred new plays and adaptations went on to productions around the world. Murphy initiated and produced festivals with residencies by Athol Fugard, Frank Manley, Naomi Wallace and Wole Soyinka.

He has taught adaptation workshops for professionals and students at several theaters and play labs in the USA, Canada and Europe. His former students who became leaders in the field include Robert O’Hara, Lauren Gunderson, Hank Azaria, Ariel Fristoe, Adam Richmond and Justine Shapiro.

Murphy himself is a seasoned adapter and producer of new work. He began his career in 1970 by creating a well-received adaptation of the works of William Blake.

In 2013, The University Of Michigan Press published his book on adaptation for the theatre, Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation.

Buy Vincent's Book:
at the University of Michigan Press
on Amazon


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