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Matt Murray

Playwright / Composer/Lyricist / Screenwriter

Matt is a Toronto-based book writer, lyricist and playwright. Musical credits include: Maggie (co-book, co-music, co-lyric) which premiered at Theatre Aquarius, co-produced with the Charlottetown Festival. Maggie had its American premiere in 2024 at the Goodspeed Opera House. Grow ( book writer) Grand Theatre. Going Under (book writer). Matt wrote six Ross Petty Holiday Pantomimes – Peter's Final Flight!, Lil Red Robin Hood, The Wizard Of OZ and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions, There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice In Winterland. Matt also wrote the Canadian Stage Company’s premiere holiday Panto, a brand new adaptation of The Wizard Of OZ, in association with Ross Petty Productions. He is set to write this year's take on Robyn Hood! Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich, Remember, Maggy? (with Carol Anne Murray) and The Time Capsule (formerly Chronicles Of Sarnia) which premiered at the Blyth Festival and is set to open this year’s season at Theatre Aquarius.

 

Works by Matt Murray

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Going Under

By Colleen Dauncey & Matt Murray & Akiva Romer-Segal

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Grow

By Colleen Dauncey & Matt Murray & Akiva Romer-Segal

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Maggie

By Matt Murray

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Myth of the Ostrich

By Matt Murray

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Published Works

(Praise for Myth of the Ostrich:)

Matt Murray’s script is both brilliantly structured and hilariously written. Too bad the last show is sold out—and no wonder—because Myth of the Ostrich is one not to miss. 

My Entertainment World

Murray clearly has a gift for intricately plotted, character-driven comedies that deliver home truths along with abundant belly laughs.