Tim Murphy

Timothy Murphy is an internationally acclaimed entertainer who studied theatre at York University and was a full scholarship recipient for the Musical Theatre Program at Canada’s prestigious Banff School of Fine Arts. He is an award winner in the DuMaurier Search for Stars National Talent Competition and has performed across the country in a variety of plays and musicals in such respected venues as Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage and Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre. He has originated roles in Canadian productions and workshops including Dora Mavor Moore award winners The Secret Garden, The Prince and the Pauper and The Count of Monte Cristo, starred as Hamlet in Something’s Rockin’ in Denmark and garnered national recognition with his performance in the Canadian revival of The Legend of the Dumbells. In 1990, Mr. Murphy joined the cast of the Las Vegas-style revue An Evening at La Cage starring as Joan Rivers. His five year long affiliation with the show took him from Toronto to Cancun to Miami Beach to St. Maarten and concluded with a contract as the headliner in the showroom of the Sands Hotel in Puerto Rico. Upon his return to Canada, Mr. Murphy was invited by renowned Canadian playwright Brad Fraser and composer Joey Miller to star in a series of workshops of their new musical Outrageous and was thrilled to remain with the project for its world premiere and subsequent extended run at Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company. Since relocating to his hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Tim has begun a new career as a director and choreographer, having taken them helm of critically acclaimed productions of The Who’s Tommy, Cinderella, Company, Chicago, The Music Man, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Pippin, Footloose, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, White Christmas and The Producers. In the spring of 2009 Mr. Murphy returned to the professional stage in the role of “Pirelli” in the Sudbury Theatre Centre production of Sweeney Todd and spent part of this summer in Sarnia where he directed Second City star Linda Kash (a.k.a. television’s Philadelphia Cream Cheese angel) in a one woman show for the Starbright Summer Theatre Festival. Presently, he is in rehearsals directing the Sault Symphony Orchestra’s full stage production of The King and I which opens this December for a limited engagement at the Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre. Timothy has been a faculty member of both Richard Kim’s Studio Dance Arts and Algoma University’s Music Department and is presently the resident Musical Theatre instructor for the Sault Symphony’s School of Music as well as the Artistic Director of Algoma Public Health’s Youth Engagement Theatre.