Mikel Murfi

Mikel Murfi

Mikel Murfi is from Sligo and trained in Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.  He has played in The Playboy of the Western World, The Morning After Optimism, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.  Other acting credits include The New Electric Ballroom, Lyndie’s Got a Gun, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Druid, Galway), The Chairs (Blue Raincoat, Sligo), The Cure (Half Moon Theatre, Cork), Stokehauling, Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday, Macbeth, God’s Gift and The White Headed Boy(Barabbas), Studs, Melting Penguins (Passion Machine), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Rough Magic) and The Tender Trap (Pigsback). He played in The Lyric Hammersmith, London in Desire Under The Elms, on which he also was the Movement Director. As a director he most recently worked on The Second Coming (a Yeats based aerial- dance work) with Fidget Feet for The Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo. He worked with Fishamble/Galway Arts Festival on The Great Goat Bubble. He co-directed Ruth 66 for Fourth Leaf Theatre. He devised and directed The Poor Little Boy With No Arms at The Lir Academy with the cast. For Red Kettle he directed The Country Girls by Edna O Brien. He devised and directed It Only Ever Happens in the Movies with John Taite and the cast of the National Youth Theatre. He directed Manchan Magan’s Focal Point for TEAM. For the Abbey he directed Arrah Na Pogue and B for Baby. For Druid he has directed Penelope and The Walworth Farce.  Other directing credits include Diamonds in the Soil, The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy for Macnas, Falling out of Love, Yew Tree Productions, Trad, Galway Arts Festival and The Lonesome West, Lyric Theatre, Belfast.  He was Movement Director on the Landmark Productions/Galway Arts Festival production of Misterman. He also tours these days with his one-man show The Man In The Woman’s Shoes.

Movies for Mikel Murfi...

Title: SisterS
Character: Séamus
Released: March 30, 2023
Type: TV
Two women, one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father.
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The Overcoat
Title: The Overcoat
Character: Commissioner (voice)
Released: July 14, 2018
Type: Movie
An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.
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Jimmy's Hall
Title: Jimmy's Hall
Character: Tommy
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
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The Ballad of Kid Kanturk
Title: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk
Character: Kid Kanturk
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of sell-out shows and the lows of incarceration for an act of cannibalism.
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Intermission
Title: Intermission
Character: Rabbit Man
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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Sweety Barrett
Title: Sweety Barrett
Character: Uniform Two
Released: April 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
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The Butcher Boy
Title: The Butcher Boy
Character: Buttsy
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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The Commitments
Title: The Commitments
Character: Music Journalist
Released: August 14, 1991
Type: Movie
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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3 Joes
Title: 3 Joes
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
On a summer morning, three young men named Joe have a go at doing a bit of housework.
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After Midnight
Title: After Midnight
Character: Michaeleen
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.