Acting

Alex will be appearing in the full length Broadway play hit, SEMINAR by Theresa Rebeck. After previewing the play this summer for 5 invitional only audiences at wonderHouse boutique Theatre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the show opened at Badhuistheater in Amsterdam, in November, 2023. In this last 18 months Alex played a key role in Dutch Filmmaker Beek Groot’s ENTERTAIN ME. He also appeared in soon to a be released Dutch indie production, FAZANT.

Alex Murphy’s professional acting career in film, television, and theater has spanned the United States, Europe, and Asia. After graduating from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Performance, Alex later studied Stanislavsky technique at HB Studio, Laban technique and Stanislavsky Technique with Larry Smith of Drama Centre London, and a long trek into Meisner Technique for near 2 years at the Obie Award winning Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City-the Meisner study conducted by its groundbreaking Artistic Director, Curt Dempster. After BA studies at USF, before settling into private, studio study and play works in NYC, Alex had spent a few years performing in resident theaters in South Florida. There, he was a founding member and principal actor in the much publicized Tampa, Florida improv group, SCHOOL OF NIGHT. Additionally, post study in Florida began a long series of lead acting work in such plays WHEN YOU COMIN’ BACK, RED RYDER by Mark Medoff, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO by David Mamet, SHAVED SPLITS by Sam Shepard, THE WAGER by Mark Medoff, and THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST by Beth Henley, and, Petruchio in Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew, and Tybalt in a production of ROMEO AND JULIET.

Eventually Alex fully settled into the New York scene and slowly moved into the OFF, and OFF-OFF Broadway theatre circuit. In New York City, Alex appeared in numerous lead roles in productions: LOU GEHRIG DID NOT DIE OF CANCER, DOPES, and FRESH MEAT at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID at the West Bank Theatre; the American premiere of Tom Walmsley's WHITE BOYS (co-starring Richard J. Paul, and the late Adrienne Shelly) and BUCK FEVER at the Westbeth Theatre, IRON TOMMY at Manhattan Punchline, THE SEA OF CORTEZ at the Workhouse Theatre, and THE AUTHORS VOICE  and THE PRIEST AND THE ETHIOPIAN ENTER BOB AND LOUISE’S HOUSE AND BEFRIEND BOB AND LOUISE RESPECTIVELY by filmmaker Paul Weitz (About A Boy, Mozart in the Jungle) at The Women’s InterArt Annex. Murphy’s repertoire also includes solo performances such as DRINKING IN AMERICA by Eric Bogosian, which he premiered at the Studio Buffo Theatre in Warsaw, Poland. Later he was the first to be given the rights to do a “best of” Bogosian’s solo theatre work titled ESSENTIAL AMERICA, which he performed at BMOCA in Boulder, Colorado, The Silver Meteor Gallery in Tampa,Florida, and at New York City’s prestigious, Ensemble Studio Theatre. In the early 1990’s Alex was granted a coveted life time membership at New York City’s Ensemble StudioTheatre.

On a break from University, Alex had picked up his first lead role in a feature film (MADMAN) in New York City. Murphy’s work in film and television in the U.S. includes ONE LIFE TO LIVE, ALL MY CHILDREN, MADMAN and GUTS ( Best Short Film at Athens Film Festival). Living and performing for five years in Eastern Europe, his European films include KILER, MLODE WILKI, MLODE WILKI ½, SUKCES (one season, prime-time TV series), and Russian/Polish/German feature film, AKWARIUM.

In the past decade, Alex has done numerous short films. Before leaving Asia for Europe, Alex completed lead acting work on the short film RIVERSIDE, directed by Darwin Buschman and shot by Odie Flores (Kinatay, Serbis-Palme D'or nominees). In February 2014, Alex was nominated for "Best Actor" at the Sinulog film festival in Cebu, Philippines, for the short film PADULONG PINUY-ANAN.