Maeve Murphy

Maeve Murphy is an award winning screen writer and film director. She was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland. Educated at Cambridge University, while there, she was the secretary of the Cambridge Footlights. After graduating Maeve worked in theatre where she was a co-founding member of "Trouble and Strife" theatre company. She then worked at Parallax Pictures and moved into film. Maeve’s first short Amazing Grace starring Aiden Gillen and Clare Cathcart and was screened at the London Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival before being screened on Channel Four and bought by Film Four. Her second short Salvage, starring Orla Brady, was shown on UTV and RTÉ in Éire and was released by the BFI. Her first feature film Silent Grace, a prison drama, starring Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Patrick Bergin and Conor Mullen, premiered at a market screening at Cannes and screened at the Galway, Taormina and the Hamptons Film Festival, USA. Silent Grace was based on a play that Maeve co-wrote with other members of Trouble and Strife called Now and at the Hour of our Death.