Imogen Murphy

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| name = Imogen Murphy

| nationality = Irish

| alma_mater = Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

| occupation = Film director

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Imogen Murphy is an Irish film and television director.{{Cite web|url=https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/64-imogen-murphy-director/|title = #64 | Imogen Murphy | Director|date = 5 July 2019}} In 2021 she was nominated for an Irish Film & Television Academy award. In 2020 she was lead director and co-story writer on Irish-Canadian murder mystery series Dead Still,{{cite web|last1=Hale-Stern|first1=Kaila|date=June 15, 2020|title=Dead Still's Imogen Murphy on Directing TV, Indomitable Irish Women, and Making a Mischievous Victorian Murder Mystery|url=https://www.themarysue.com/dead-still-director-imogen-murphy/|accessdate=June 16, 2020|website=The Mary Sue}}{{cite web |last1=Clarke |first1=Stewart |title=Acorn TV, Ireland's RTE Team for Morbidly Comic Drama 'Dead Still' |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/acorn-rte-dead-still-drama-comedy-michael-smiley-kerr-logan-1203228886/ |website=Variety |accessdate=May 30, 2020 |date=May 30, 2020}} which was nominated for the Royal Television Society Ireland Drama Award 2021,{{Cite web|url=https://www.screenireland.ie/news/rts-ireland-gradaim-rtstelevision-awards-announces-nominees-for-2021|title = RTS Ireland/Gradaim RTS Television Awards announces Nominees for 2021}} and for seven awards at the 17th Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Drama, Best Script and Best Director.

Imogen Murphy's short film, Seanie & Flo, won the 2020 audience award at the Chicago Irish Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0005536/2020/1/|title = Chicago Irish Film Festival (2020)| website=IMDb }} In 2018 she directed the second series of Irish comedy drama Can't Cope, Won't Cope,{{Cite web | url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4291287&tpl=archnews&force=1 |title = Can't Cope Won't Cope Begins Filming Series 2 | the Irish Film & Television Network}}{{Cite web|date=2017-11-13|title=Can't Cope Won't Cope Begins Filming Series 2|url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4291287&tpl=archnews&force=1|access-date=2021-09-07|website=The Irish Film & Television Network}} which was nominated for Best Drama Series at the 2019 Celtic Media Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.celticmediafestival.co.uk/view-entry/4462|title=Can't Cope Won't Cope}}

In 2017, she directed the film Cry Rosa{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bs3ynl |title = BBC Two - Cry Rosa}} which won the Kurzfilm Hamburg International Film Festival Mo Award, and was nominated for a Royal Television Society award as well as the award for best short drama at the 15th Irish Film & Television Awards.{{Cite web|date=13 August 2018|title=Regional Awards - Northern Ireland 2018|url=https://rts.org.uk/award/regional-awards-northern-ireland-2018}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/ifta-awards-2018-the-full-list-of-nominations-1.3351911 |title = Ifta Awards 2018: The full list of nominations| newspaper=The Irish Times }} Previously Murphy directed blocks of drama series Red Rock and Hollyoaks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/imogen-murphy|title=Imogen Murphy}}

Imogen Murphy is a graduate of the National Film School of Ireland at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).