ETTA MURFIT

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Etta is Associate Artistic Director of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and has performed and collaborated on many shows which include: Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Edward Scissorhands and most recently Romeo and Juliet and Midnight Bell. Etta has worked with Emma Rice and Mike Shepherd for Kneehigh theatre in many shows, and these include: Wild Bride, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, 946, Dead Dog in a Suitcase and Tin Drum.

Choreography credits include: Wuthering Heights (National Theatre/UK/US Tour and Holland Festival); Bagdad Café (Old Vic); Wise Children (Old Vic & UK Tour); Romantics Anonymous (Bristol Old Vic/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Orpheus in the Underworld (English National Opera); A Clockwork Orange (Everyman & Playhouse); The Tin Drum (Kneehigh Theatre/UK Tour); Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Le Nozze di Figaro (Holland Park Opera); The Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Infernal Galop (Images of Dance / Sarasota Ballet); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Albery Theatre); Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Kneehigh Theatre / Leicester Curve and Gielgud Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Haymarket Theatre); Wild bride and Midnights Pumpkin (Kneehigh Theatre / Asylum Tent Cornwall); Travesties (Birmingham Rep) and Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep).

As Associate Director and Performer for AMP/New Adventures: Romeo & Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, The Midnight Bell, The Red Shoes, Cinderella (Original London and LA productions); Dorian Gray; Edward Scissorhands and Nutcracker! Etta also originated roles in: Nutcracker (Opera North and Sadler’s Wells); The Car Man (Old Vic); Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells, West End, LA & Broadway); Highland Fling (Donmar Warehouse & UK tours); The Infernal Galop; The Percy’s of Fitzrovia; Deadly Serious and Town & Country.

TV & Film credits include: Nutcracker (BBC/NVC); The Car Man (Channel 4); Cinderella (South Bank Show, ITV); Swan Lake (BBC); Late Flowering Lust (BBC); Roald Dahl’s Red Riding Hood (BBC); Mrs Hartley and The Growth Centre (BBC); Storm (Aletta Collins / BBC) and Swan Lake 3D (Sky Arts).