Maeve Murphy [SEP] occupation
Maeve Murphy
Maeve Murphy is an award-winning Irish screenwriter and film director.
Early life.
She was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland. As a teenager, she was one of the hosts of BBC Northern Ireland's youth TV series "Wise Crack". While at Cambridge University, she was the secretary of the Cambridge Footlights and a co-founding member of "Trouble and Strife" theatre company, with which she continued to work after graduating. She then worked at Ken Loach's film company Parallax
Cinematography. Taking Stock showed at the 2016 Garden State Film Festival where the film and director Maeve Murphy and producer Geoff Austin won the Bud Abbott Award for feature-length comedy. The film also showed at the WIND International Film Festival in LA where Maeve won the award for best female director in the comedy section. Also, Junichi Kajioka won the award for best supporting actor. Indiewire said "Maeve Murphy is a name to look out for". Mark Kermode of the Observer said of Maeve that she was a "Talented