Tom Murrin

{{Short description|American performance artist and playwright}}

{{Infobox artist

| name = Tom Murrin

| birth_date = February 8, 1939

| death_date = March 12, 2012 (aged 73)

| nationality = American

| field = Performance art}}

Tom Murrin (February 8, 1939 – March 12, 2012), also known as Jack Bump, Tom Trash, and The Alien Comic, was an American performance artist and playwright in the downtown avant-garde art scene in New York City.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/theater/tom-murrin-performance-artist-a-k-a-alien-comic-dies-at-73.html?_r=1 |title=Tom Murrin, Alien Comic Performance Artist, Dies at 73 |work= The New York Times|date=14 March 2012|first=Bruce|last=Webber|accessdate=5 August 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html |title=Tom Murrin: Artist, Playwright And 'The Alien Comic' Passes Away From Cancer |work= Huffington Post|date=13 March 2012|accessdate=5 August 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/160665-Tom-Murrin-Drama-Critic-and-Playwright-Is-Dead|title=Tom Murrin, Drama Critic and Playwright, Is Dead|work=Playbill|date=13 March 2012|first=Robert|authorlink1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson|accessdate=5 August 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315225334/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/160665-Tom-Murrin-Drama-Critic-and-Playwright-Is-Dead|archivedate=15 March 2012}}Roselee Goldberg Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, p. 194, Thames & Hudson, 2001 {{ISBN|978-0500203392}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/18/arts/reviews-dance-travel-hints-to-doomsday-courtesy-of-dancenoise.html |title=Reviews/Dance; Travel Hints to Doomsday Courtesy of Dancenoise |work= The New York Times|date=18 July 1991|first=Jennifer|last=Dunning|accessdate=11 March 2013}} In the 1980s and 1990s, Murrin curated a variety night called The Full Moon Show at Performance Space 122 and later at La Mama and Dixon Place. In 2013, Dixon Place introduced a performance award, "The Tommy," to honor Murrin's life and work.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Schneider-to-Receive-2014-Tom-Murrin-Performance-Award-20140409|title=Andrew Schneider to Receive 2014 Tom Murrin Performance Award|author=BWW News Desk|work=BroadwayWorld.com}}