Tiffany Murphy

Performance Maker & Researcher

I’m an award-winning performer, performance maker, researcher and tutor based in East Sussex.

My PhD research at the University of Sussex adopts a queer feminist lens of failure as a means to engage with sexual/gendered trauma, with a focus on developing reparative, ethical and trauma-informed frameworks for performance to work with and through lived traumatic experience.

I’ve successfully created and toured nine performance projects with international collaborators, receiving critical acclaim.

Alongside my doctoral studies, I work as Senior Project Officer for the European Research Council-funded project Promiscuous Print and Research Communications Coordinator for the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex.

I hold a BA (Hons) in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Selected performances

Anne Meets Jeffrey 
VEEM House of Performance, Battersea Arts Centre, Theater An Zee

It’s Where We Go
Folkestone Fringe, Electric Medway, b-side Arts Festival

Tiffany Murphy KFDM
The Glory, The Roundhouse, The Marlborough

The Power of Wow
Dublin Fringe, LimeWharf, Hackney Showroom.

DOUZE
Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Duckie at RVT, SPILL Festival

My Name is B
Arts Admin, Camden People's Theatre

Selected awards

The Adam Weiler PGR Impact Award, University of Sussex , 2025

Close to My Heart: Autoethnographic Approaches
Researcher-led Initiative Funding Award (Research Culture), 2024/25 Media, Arts and Humanities Research Culture Fund, 2025

Close to My Heart: PGR Perspectives
Researcher-led Initiative Funding Award (Mental Health), 2023/24
Sussex Research Culture Award: PGR Ethical Research Award (runner-up), 2024

Anne Meets Jeffrey
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, 2019

DOUZE
Five nominations, Edinburgh Fringe, 2017
Best Theatre, IYAF Kingston, 2016
Dublin City Council Arts Grant, 2015

My Name is B
Student Gold Funding, Goldsmiths, 2015
BANNER Award programme for graduate artists, Arts Admin, 2014

The Power of Wow
Bewley's Little Gem Award, Dublin Fringe (nom), 2017.