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Margaret Murphy

Greater Los Angeles area

Independent Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Producer 

Gender: Female

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: English

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Recently transplanted from New York to Los Angeles and would like to network with LA professionals about interesting projects.

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MARGARET MURPHY
11730 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-471-7419 Cell: 646-644-8236
margaretmskate@aol.com
www.therealmurphy.com

Margaret Murphy is a three-time Emmy winning producer/writer/director/editor. Her work covers the areas of News, Sports, Children’s programming as well as dramatic features and documentary films.

2009 - Supervising Producer on a DVD project for pre-school children. Granderson Media.

2007-2009 Consulting Producer and writer for the independent documentary “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts”, a biography of the noted short story writer, poet, activist and teacher. Also served as a Consultant on the Japanese feature documentary “Hannari-Modern Geisha”, Sakura Productions, 2008 release.

2005-2006 Consulting Producer for the hour-long documentary “Can You Hear Me?” the story of Israeli and Palestinian women in the Middle East peace movement narrated by Debra Winger. Selected screenings: Denver Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum, United Nations. Lilly Rivlin Productions

2006-2007 Producer and writer for the pilot of the NBC on line Educational Initiative Project, ICUE. A visual text book for AP students created from the NBC News archive.

2003-2006 Freelance producer and writer for CBS NEWS PRODUCTIONS. Her programs include hours for TV Land, Discovery, the History Channel and A&E.

2003-2004 Supervising Editor on the feature film “Proud” starring Ossie Davis. Hilfiger Entertainment: Rochester Film Festival 2004 (Premiere), Tribeca Film Festival 2005. Distributed by Castle Hill and Lion’s Gate.

1997 to 2002 Producer and Writer for the ABC/LIFETIME documentaries “BREAKING THE CHAIN” which focused on women in prison and their children and “DEVIL’S DIET” on women and body image with supermodels Christie Brinkley and Emme.
ABC News Productions, Producer and Writer for many A&E “Biography” hours including Julia Child, Johnny Cash, Bill Gates, Andy Garcia, Regis Philbin, Claus von Bulow, Burt Reynolds, Tony Randall, Barbara Bush, Vanna White, Ivana Trump, David Koresh, Dame Edna/Barry Humphries, James Beard, Osama bin Laden and “The Biography of the Year- Rudy Giuliani”.

2002 Produced a half hour special for ABC Sports on Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes hosted by Jim McKay. NATIONAL EMMY AWARD as an Olympic Unit film editor for ABC Sports. In 1995, 1996 and 1997, she was a producer and writer for the TURNER SPORTS network specials featuring the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Hall of Fame Awards hosted by Donna de Varona.

1995 she Producer and Writer for an hour-long special on three champions of figure skating - Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan for the ABC SPORTS/NIKE “PASSION TO PLAY” series hosted by Donna de Varona.

1992-1995 Staff Producer for DATELINE NBC where she produced and wrote more than twenty major features and profiles including Bill Murray, Dolly Parton, Sandra Bernhard, Raul Julia, Andre Agassi, Lily Tomlin and Simon and Garfunkel, a profile of “Seinfeld” with the entire cast as well as two exclusive stories on Nancy Kerrigan and the events surrounding the attack on the figure skater before the 1994 Olympics and her return from the Games.

1990-1992 Producer for ABC NEWS’ NIGHTLINE. NATIONAL EMMY AWARD for the program’s coverage of the Gulf War. Her feature stories for NIGHTLINE include The Jeffrey Dahmer Murders, The Zodiac Killer, X Rated Movies, Yosemite at 100 with Robert Redford, Sneaker Wars, The Invasion of Panama and Tornados (Emmy Nomination).

1987-1990 Partner in Belzberg/Murphy Productions developing reality-based material for motion pictures and television including the CBS television movie “Unforgivable”. She also developed the story and was Associate Producer for the 1988 CBS TV movie “Christmas Comes to Willow Creek”.

1986-1987 Producer/Writer and Editor for the ABC NEWS documentary series OUR WORLD.

1984-1985 Producer and Writer for the PBS series Smithsonian World. NATIONAL EMMY AWARD for her profile of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s career as an aviator, an honor she shared with historian David McCullough.

Ms. Murphy began her career at Sesame Street producing many original film segments for the show. She went on to co-create, produce and edit the pilot for ABC’s Emmy and Peabody Award winning children’s series “Animals, Animals, Animals”. In 1982, she received a “VIDEO OF THE YEAR” GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION for “Fun and Games”, an interactive videodisc for children she produced, directed, wrote and edited for UNIVERSAL/SCHOLASTIC PRODUCTIONS. Her independent documentaries including “They Are Their Own Gifts” have been honored at the New York Film Festival, and at Edinburgh, Berlin, Chicago and Houston. She was named to the list of “100 Outstanding Irish Americans of 2008” by Irish America Magazine.

Fordham University, BS in English
Brooklyn College Television Center, Master’s Program
The Neighborhood Playhouse