Katie Murphy

Katie Murphy is a Screenwriter and Film/TV Producer based in Brittas Bay, Co.Wicklow. She is currently working as the Script & Story Coordinator on Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla led by Showrunner Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive). Katie just completed a Post-Grad in Film Producing with Screen Ireland / Technological University Dublin and was a Guest Lecturer with University College Cork for their MA in Business Management and Creative Producing. This year she was selected for Screen Ireland's Mentoring Programme working with Screenwriter/Producer Paul Mayeda Berges (Bend It Like Beckham, Blinded by the Light) Katie was Associate Producer on O'Sullivan Productions' comedy feature Deadly Cuts which following a successful cinema run, debuted on Netflix Ireland/UK as Number 1.

Her feature film script 'Barefeet' has placed as a Semi-Finalist in this year's Academy Nicholl Competition. Out of 5,526 screenplays only 140 made the Semi-Final list. Barefeet also placed in Final Drafts Big Break Competition, out of 16,000 scripts it placed in the Top 25 in the Drama category. Katie was also one of ten shortlisted by the European Space Agency in Europe for their New Worlds Script Competition last year with her sci-fi film 'Operation Origin' which she is currently developing into a TV Series.

Katie is the Writer / Creator of comedy-drama TV series "Surviving 22" which is in development with Atomic 80 - led by Producer Rachael O'Kane (Dating Amber) Surviving 22 is a comedy about suicide and mental health in Ireland.

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