Oral History - Donna Murphy

Two-time Tony® Award winner, DONNA MURPHY, will be interviewed by producer/director RICK MCKAY, the award-winning filmmaker responsible for the "Broadway: The Golden Age" films.

The ongoing Oral History Project chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theatre women in many fields. Interviews with such outstanding women are videotaped and housed in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

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This program is made possible through the generous support of the Edith Meiser Foundation

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BIOGRAPHIES


Donna Murphy
Award-winning actress/singer Donna Murphy continues to build a career of striking range and diversity in the theater and on the large and small screens. She can currently be seen as Kathleen, the troubled matriarch, in Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground for Sony Pictures Classics. She also recently received international critical acclaim for her performance in award winning filmmaker Todd Solondz’ Dark Horse, which was selected for the 2011 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.

On stage, Murphy most recently starred in the world premiere of The People in the Picture as Raisel/Bubbie, garnering rave reviews and receiving Tony®, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Ms. Murphy also starred on Broadway in Passion (Tony®, Drama Desk, Drama League Awards), The King and I (Tony®, Drama League Awards; Drama Desk, OCC nominations), Wonderful Town (Drama League Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theater Award, Drama Desk, OCC, Astaire Awards; Tony® nomination), Lovemusik (Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC Awards; Tony® nomination), and as the title character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Encores!: Wonderful Town, Follies and Anyone Can Whistle. Off-Broadway credits include Helen (NYSF; Drama League Award), Twelve Dreams and Hello Again (LCT, Drama Desk Award nominations), Song of Singapore (Drama Desk, OCC noms), Privates on Parade (Roundabout).

Ms. Murphy recently completed filming The Bourne Legacy (2012) with Edward Norton. Other select film: Mother Gothel in Disney’s animated hit Tangled, The Nanny Diaries, World Trade Center, The Fountain, Spiderman 2, The Door in the Floor, Center Stage, Star Trek: Insurrection, The Astronaut’s Wife, and Jade. Murphy’s first television film, HBO’s “Someone Had to be Benny,” earned her a Cable Ace Award as Best Actress in a Drama Special or Series and a Daytime Emmy. Other TV includes: “Trust Me,” “Hack,” “What About Joan,” “The Last Debate,” “The Day Lincoln Was Shot,” “Murder One,” “Leonard Bernstein’s New York,” and guest appearances on “Ugly Betty,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,”   “Damages,” “CSI,” “Law & Order,” and  PBS’ Emmy Award winning “Sondheim: The Birthday Concert.”

Recordings include: Lovemusik (Ghostlight), Wall to Wall Sondheim (Symphony Space), Wonderful Town (DRG), Leonard Bernstein’s New York (Nonesuch), Hello Again (RCA Victor), The King and I (Varese Sarabande) and the Grammy Award winning Passion (Angel).


Rick McKay
Rick McKay lives in New York City and is the award-winning Producer/Director/Writer/Cine- matographer of the hit film Broadway: The Golden Age. For five seasons he was a segment producer on WNET13’s City Arts, the most-honored locally produced show in television history, which won over 30 Emmy Awards. He also produced the first story commissioned for the critically successful national series Egg: The Arts Show, garnering another two Emmy nominations as well as helping to create the opening segment of two recent national Tony Awards broadcasts. Rick is the sole owner and proprietor of Second Act Productions, the production company that made the feature film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There. Broadway: The Golden Age has won over 15 film festival awards to date, is on 17 critics’ Top Ten Films of 2004 lists, and was a hit in theaters around the country. He was honored at the Sundance Film Festival by PBS and inducted into the PBS Producers Academy as one of their best and brightest documentary producer/directors for his continuing independent film and television work. Rick has also been honored with the Special Contribution to Film Award from the Stonybrook Film Festival,, the Limelight Award from Ojai Film Festival, the Contribution to Theatre Preservation Award from the New York Theatre Museum, the New England Theatre Conference's Legend Award, and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Five Towns College, which honored McKay, Michael Feinstein and Sheldon Harnick at a special ceremony on their Long Island campus.