Tiffany Murphy
Performance Maker
Researcher
BRIGHTON
About Tiffany Murphy
Tiffany Murphy is a performer, performance maker and researcher based in Sussex.
Tiffany’s doctoral research 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. Her thesis interrogates performance’s ability to take on trauma, questioning what tools, if any, live performance can offer to access circuits of disclosure, witnessing and responsibility, and the kinds of ethical challenges engendered.
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
Close to My Heart: Autoethnographic Approaches
Researcher-led Initiative Funding Award (Research Culture), 2024/25
Close to My Heart: PGR Perspectives
Researcher-led Initiative Funding Award (Mental Health Strand), 2023/24
Sussex Research Culture Award: PGR Ethical Research Award (runner-up), 2024
Anne Meets Jeffrey
Arts Council England funding, 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 (nominated), 2017.