Donn B. Murphy
Birth Place: San Antonio, TX
Latest News on Donn B. Murphy:
Former National Theatre President Donn B. Murphy Has Passed Away (Apr 11, 2022)
Arena Stage Announces Playwrights' Arena for the 2020/21 Season (Aug 18, 2020)
The Kennedy Center Sets 2015 Page-to-Stage New Play Festival Lineup (Sep 5, 2015)
Former National Theatre President Donn B. Murphy Has Passed Away (Apr 11, 2022)
Arena Stage Announces Playwrights' Arena for the 2020/21 Season (Aug 18, 2020)
The Kennedy Center Sets 2015 Page-to-Stage New Play Festival Lineup (Sep 5, 2015)
Donn B. Murphy BIO
Donn B. Murphy taught acting, theatre design, theatre history, playwriting and speech courses at Georgetown University for 40 years. He directed plays and activities of the Georgetown Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society for half of that time. He served as Vice-President and then President of the National Theatre Corporation from 1974 to 2013.
Bor in Leavenworth, Kansas, he graduated from Immaculata High School and Saint Benedict’s College, and received a Master’s degree from the Catholic University of America. He earned a PhD from the Department of Theatre at the University of Wisconsin. For 20 years, he conducted a theatre workshop with patients of Chestnut Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland.
He was Lighting Director for two summers at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. For five seasons, he and Kathleen Barry, wrote, produced and appeared in interactive theatre pieces at the Meadow Tent at Wolf Trap Farm Park. The entire audience was up on their feet throughout the presentations, actively involved in the productions.
He served in the US Army in Japan, and subsequently, working with Margaret E. Lynn, the head of US Army Entertainment, he held summer workshops for US Army Entertainment directors at Georgetown, and at Army bases abroad.
He was technical liaison for theatrical productions at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
In 1970 he was a faculty member at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies and in 1971, he served as Production Coordinator and Director of the Film Festival for the U.S. Pavilion at the Man and His World exhibition in Montreal. He was a Festival Manager for the opening of EPCOT Center at Disney World in Florida, and in 1986, served as the District of Columbia Representative to Thailand and China for the Royal Pacific Cultural Exchange.
He retired from Georgetown in 1990, and from the National Theatre in 2013.
Donn B. Murphy News
Former National Theatre President Donn B. Murphy Has Passed Away
Donn B. Murphy, PhD, former president and executive director of the National Theatre in Washington, DC for 35 years, and Georgetown University Professor Emeritus, passed away peacefully at his home in Fort Lauderdale, FL on April 3, announced his spouse and life partner of 49 years, US Army Col. H. Jones 'Jon' Carrow, Ret.
Arena Stage Announces Playwrights' Arena for the 2020/21 Season
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced that the 2020/21 Season of Playwrightsa?? Arena will be in partnership with Georgetown and Howard Universities. Originally launched in 2013, Playwrightsa?? Arena has empowered local professional playwrights to fully examine their artistic and dramaturgical practice.
The Kennedy Center Sets 2015 Page-to-Stage New Play Festival Lineup
The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Today, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The 14th Annual Page-to-Stage event showcases more than 40 new plays by female playwrights and includes nine works that are part of the citywide Women's Voices Theater Festival, which officially begins on September 8.
The Kennedy Center Sets 2015 Page-to-Stage New Play Festival Lineup
The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The 14th Annual Page-to-Stage event showcases more than 40 new plays by female playwrights and includes nine works that are part of the citywide Women's Voices Theater Festival, which officially begins on September 8.
Screenwriter and Playwright John PiRoman Passes Away at 62
Three-time Writers Guild of America Award-winning screenwriter and playwright John PiRoman, 62, who split his writing career between the theatre and television, died of natural causes at his home in Miami, FL on March 11, according to his brother Raphael PiRoman.
Shelby Company Presents SOUSEPAW: A BASEBALL STORY Tonight
Shelby Company presents the New York premiere of award-winning playwright Jonathan A. Goldberg's critically acclaimed play SOUSEPAW: A BASEBALL STORY directed by Courtney Ulrich, with preview performances beginning tonight, October 9th prior to an official press opening on October 11th at 17 Frost Space (17 Frost Street, Williamsburg) Brooklyn.
Shelby Company Presents: SOUSEPAW: A BASEBALL STORY, 10/9
Shelby Company presents the New York premiere of award-winning playwright Jonathan A. Goldberg's critically acclaimed play SOUSEPAW: A BASEBALL STORY directed by Courtney Ulrich, with preview performances beginning October 9th prior to an official press opening on October 11th at 17 Frost Space (17 Frost Street, Williamsburg) Brooklyn.
NCTC Pride Season 15 Presents GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, Previews 8/14-21
NCTC Pride Season 15 presents Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by John Dixon. The show previews August 14 - 21, opens August 22nd (Press Night is Friday, August 21st) and runs through September 20, 2009: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
NCTC Pride Season 15 Presents GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, Previews 8/14-21
NCTC Pride Season 15 presents Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by John Dixon. The show previews August 14 - 21, opens August 22nd (Press Night is Friday, August 21st) and runs through September 20, 2009: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
NCTC Pride Season 15 Presents GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, Previews 8/14-21
NCTC Pride Season 15 presents Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by John Dixon. The show previews August 14 - 21, opens August 22nd (Press Night is Friday, August 21st) and runs through September 20, 2009: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
NCTC Pride Season 15 Presents GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, Previews 8/14-21
NCTC Pride Season 15 presents Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by John Dixon. The show previews August 14 - 21, opens August 22nd (Press Night is Friday, August 21st) and runs through September 20, 2009: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
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