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Mike Murphy
Boston, United States

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories.

A more complete list of awards is presented below by year.

In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition.

His prose has appeared in many magazines and two dozen anthologies.

In 2015, Mike's short script “The Candy Man” was produced as Dark Chocolate. In 2020, his second short film, Hotline, was produced.

He is currently working on a number of projects and is seeking representation for his script and prose writing.

Mike keeps a blog at audioauthor.blogspot.com.

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AWARDS

2021:

  • TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad, quarter-finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition (out of a total of 4500 entries).

2020:

  • Feature screenplay Die Laughing, semi-finalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.
  • “Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule,” second prize, Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition.

2019:

  • Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - TV pilot category [“Solutions, Inc.”] and Winner - TV Pilot category [“Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator”].

2018:

  • Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - Short Screenplay category [“The Curious Affair at the Arkwright Club”] and Finalist - TV Pilot category [“Noah’s Bark”].

2017:

  • Among awards at the Moondance International Film Festival: Finalist - Short Screenplay category [“Olivia's Swing”].

2016: 

  • Audio script “The Forever Pill,” Moondance International Film Festival semi-finalist, Audioplay category.
  • Episode 1 of audio series Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator, Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form).

2015:

  • Dark Chocolate, winner, Audience Choice Award, best film in the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre, San Diego Film Consortium Awards (beating out 11 other films).
  • Audio script “Balancing Act,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form).

2014:

  • TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad,” winner, Moondance International Film Festival, TV pilot category.
  • “The Bullying Squad,” winner, The Columbine Award.
  • Audio script “The Pen is Mightier,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form).

2013:

  • “The Return of Cosmo Draper,” winner, Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition (inaugural year).

2012:

  • “The Pen is Mightier,” winner, New York Old Time Radio script-writing contest.

2011:

  • Short film script “Professor Hoyt's Remarkable Elixir,” semi-finalist, Shriekfest Horror Film competition.
  • Short film script “The Candy Man” named among the top 125 short film scripts in the Golden Brad awards.

2010:

  • “Sides,” Parsec Awards finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form).
  • “King of the Beasts,” first prize, Friends of Old-Time Radio script-writing competition.

2008:

  • “A Heavenly Price,” second-place winner, Friends of Old-Time Radio writing contest.
     

 

 

Scripts By Mike

The Gift
A private detective's would-be client needs his help to find the lost magic box that will fill the world with Christmas cheer.
Short Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery For sale 29pp
O Christmas Tree
The case involves a missing Christmas tree, a disabled veteran, and a town drunk who may or may not be seeing things.
Short Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy For sale 32pp
The Day Hondo Found That Rare Bottle of Wine at Sullivan's Tap & Eating Establishment
The discovery of a 200-year-old bottle of wine sets two pompous rival wine lovers against each other to possess it.
Short Comedy, Family For sale 37pp
Sides
In the not-too-distant future, a spy fights for his life against an unseen enemy, a furious public that wants him dead, and a jail cell that allows them all easy access to him.
Short Sci-Fi, Thriller For sale 33pp
Professor Hoyt's Remarkable Elixir
A professor has invented an elixir that can bring the dead back to life, whether the deceased or those who killed them want it.
Short Horror, Mystery For sale 48pp
Solutions, Inc.
In this "horror sitcom," an eccentric college professor and a down-to-earth, tough, retired New York City cop open an agency to investigate supernatural occurrences.
TV Pilot Adventure, Comedy For sale 28pp
2 readers love this script
Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator
A teacher turned macabre investigator deals with a missing mother, a shocked child, and something that lives down the plughole. (**A 2019 Moondance International Film Festival winner.**)
TV Pilot Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 26pp
2 readers love this script
The Bullying Squad
In this family comedy, four diverse kids band together to confront bullying in their neighborhood and school. (**2019 Columbine Award Winner.**)
TV Pilot Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family For sale 33pp
2 readers love this script
Noah's Bark
Noah vows to run a pet store for two years to inherit $2,000,000. Things get complicated, however, when an accident leaves him able to talk with animals.
TV Pilot Comedy, Family For sale 28pp
Hotline
Be very careful who you choose to work at the Suicide Hotline, no matter how convenient his sudden appearance is after his predecessor's death.
Short Horror, Mystery Produced 6pp

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