Katie Murphy(XVI)
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- Script and Continuity Department
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Katie Murphy is a Screenwriter and Film/TV Producer based in Ireland.
Katie was selected for Screen Ireland's Advanced Producer Post Grad and Screen Ireland's Mentee Scheme where she was paired with mentor Paul Mayeda Berges (Bend it like Beckham). She was the Script Coordinator on MGM/ Netflix's Vikings:Valhalla for three seasons working for Showrunner Jeb Stuart (Die Hard), and Script Coordinator for the Belgian/Irish co-pro crime series Hidden Assets Season 2, and Shadow Writer on Season 3.
Katie's first feature screenplay reached the Top 50 scripts in The Academy Nicholls screenplay competition, out of nearly 6000 entries, she was invited to a Screenwriting Panel with The Academy as a result. Her second screenplay, a political action satire 'Banana Wars' also placed in the Academy Nicholls as a Quarter-Finalist.
In June 2024 Katie was one of 12 filmmakers across Europe to represent Ireland at the Screen Talent Europe Pitching Forum in Grimstad, Norway. In July 2024 Katie was a scholarship recipient and Screen Ireland Bursary Awardee to attend the prestigious Rocaberti Writers Retreat in France, where she worked with mentors Judi Levine (How to Please a Woman) Martin Olson (Phineas and Ferb) Stan Zimmerman (Gilmore Girls, The Golden Girls) and Diane Drake (Only You) whom she pitched her screenplay too.
Katie is the creator of comedy TV Series 'Surviving 22' which is in active development with Screen Ireland and Atomic 80 Productions. She is passionate about representing the unseen on screen, exploring and shining a light on societal issues in a humorous or unconventional way whilst genre blending.
Katie was selected for Screen Ireland's Advanced Producer Post Grad and Screen Ireland's Mentee Scheme where she was paired with mentor Paul Mayeda Berges (Bend it like Beckham). She was the Script Coordinator on MGM/ Netflix's Vikings:Valhalla for three seasons working for Showrunner Jeb Stuart (Die Hard), and Script Coordinator for the Belgian/Irish co-pro crime series Hidden Assets Season 2, and Shadow Writer on Season 3.
Katie's first feature screenplay reached the Top 50 scripts in The Academy Nicholls screenplay competition, out of nearly 6000 entries, she was invited to a Screenwriting Panel with The Academy as a result. Her second screenplay, a political action satire 'Banana Wars' also placed in the Academy Nicholls as a Quarter-Finalist.
In June 2024 Katie was one of 12 filmmakers across Europe to represent Ireland at the Screen Talent Europe Pitching Forum in Grimstad, Norway. In July 2024 Katie was a scholarship recipient and Screen Ireland Bursary Awardee to attend the prestigious Rocaberti Writers Retreat in France, where she worked with mentors Judi Levine (How to Please a Woman) Martin Olson (Phineas and Ferb) Stan Zimmerman (Gilmore Girls, The Golden Girls) and Diane Drake (Only You) whom she pitched her screenplay too.
Katie is the creator of comedy TV Series 'Surviving 22' which is in active development with Screen Ireland and Atomic 80 Productions. She is passionate about representing the unseen on screen, exploring and shining a light on societal issues in a humorous or unconventional way whilst genre blending.