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MIKE MURPHY

(He/Him/His)

Screenwriter

Biography

Mike has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas, many for Audible.

He’s won The Columbine Award and a dozen Moondance International Film Festival awards in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories.

His prose has appeared in many magazines and more than two dozen anthologies.

In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9). In the same year, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the New York International Screenplay Awards.

In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting Magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Writers Genre Screenplay Competition.

Mike is the writer of two short films, Dark Chocolate and Hotline.

In 2013, he won the inaugural Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition. In 2020, he came in second. For several of the in-between years, he served as a judge.

Mike keeps a blog at audioauthor.blogspot.com.

 

Mike has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas, many for Audible.

He’s won The Columbine Award and a dozen Moondance International Film Festival awards in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories.

His prose has appeared in many magazines and more than two dozen anthologies.

In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9). In the same year, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the New York International Screenplay Awards.

In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting Magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Writers Genre Screenplay Competition.

Mike is the writer of two short films, Dark Chocolate and Hotline.

In 2013, he won the inaugural Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition. In 2020, he came in second. For several of the in-between years, he served as a judge.

Mike keeps a blog at audioauthor.blogspot.com.

 

Projects (109)

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ED
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  • Science Fiction
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THE KING'S PREROGATIVE
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  • Drama .
  • Horror .
  • Mystery/Suspense
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HEAT
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  • Drama .
  • Science Fiction
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HUNGER
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  • Fantasy .
  • Horror
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Credits (2)

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HOTLINE
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  • Fantasy .
  • Horror
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THE CANDY MAN
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  • Mystery/Suspense .
  • Thriller
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Education

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
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