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Ryan Murphy (born circa 1966) is an American writer and producer for film and television, best known for his creations, the FX television series Nip/Tuck, the cult hit Popular, and Glee.
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Background
Murphy grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana in a Catholic family.[1] He attended Catholic school from first through eighth grade,[1] and graduated from Warren Central High School (Indianapolis). He has described his mother as a "beauty queen turned housewife" who was influenced by Gloria Steinem and the women's liberation movement of the 1970s.[2] Murphy was "high strung" as a child and at 15, after coming out as gay, saw his first therapist, who found nothing wrong with him other than being "'too precocious for his own good.'"[2][1] Murphy performed with a choir as a kid, which would later inform his work on Glee.[1]
Murphy attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While at college, he was a staff member of the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student.
Career
Murphy started out as a journalist working for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News and Entertainment Weekly. He began scriptwriting in the late 1990s, when Steven Spielberg purchased his script, Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn?. [2]
Television
Murphy is the Golden Globe-winning creator of Nip/Tuck, which airs on FX and is both a commercial and critical hit. He is executive producer and has written and directed many episodes; in 2004, Murphy earned his first ever Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.[2] Murphy took the show's signature line, "Tell me what you don't like about yourself" from a plastic surgeon he met when he was a journalist researching an undercover story on plastic surgery in Beverly Hills.
He started his career in television in 1999 with the teen comedy series Popular. The show aired on The WB for two seasons.[3]
Murphy has also created a couple of failed pilots: the WB sitcom pilot St. Sass starring Delta Burke and Heather Matarazzo, which wasn't picked up. In 2008, Murphy wrote and directed the FX pilot, Pretty/Handsome, which also was not picked up.
Murphy's current project is a musical comedy television series for Fox entitled Glee. Fox aired a preview episode on May 18, 2009, following the season finale of American Idol; it premiered its first regular season episode on September 9, 2009. The show's early success led the network to add 9 episodes to its original order of 13, making it the first new fall series in 2009 to get a full-season order of 22 episodes.[4]
Films
In 2006, Murphy wrote the screenplay for and directed the feature film Running with Scissors. Based on the memoir by Augusten Burroughs, the movie version starred Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin and Brian Cox, and, as the young Burroughs, newcomer Joseph Cross.
Murphy has several films in development. The political comedy Dirty Tricks (his "passion project") starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Sharon Stone, the drama Eat/Pray/Love starring Julia Roberts, plastic surgery thriller Face starring Demi Moore, erotic thriller Need starring Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, starring Anthony Hopkins.
Personal
Murphy is openly gay.[5] Murphy is on the National Advisory Board of the Young Storytellers Foundation.
References
- ^ a b c d "From Nip/Tuck to High School Glee", Fresh Air (NPR), 2009-05-19, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=104199257, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ a b c d Roberts, Sheila, Ryan Murphy, Director of Running with Scissors Interview, Moviesonline.com, http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_10178.html, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ Bialis, Michael, Ryan Murphy Makes His Lighthearted Plea With Glee, the awesome show everyone should watch!, blogcritics.org, http://blogcritics.org/video/article/ryan-murphy-makes-his-lighthearted-plea/page-2/, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ Seidman, Robert (2009-09-21), FOX sings praises of Glee with full-season pickup, TVbytheNumbers.com, http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/21/fox-sings-praises-of-glee-with-full-season-pickup/27928, retrieved 2009-11-26
- ^ Poniewozik, James (2005-03-07), "Queer Eye for Straight TV", Time, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1034725,00.html, retrieved 2008-08-20
External links
- Ryan Murphy at the Internet Movie Database
- Variety article on Murphy
- "Ryan Murphy: Biography". Hollywood.com. 2009. http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1117178/Ryan_Murphy_Biography. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
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