Nay Oliver Murphy

white boy brown hair brown eyes, head tilted, looking to camera, with a navy blue collared shirt and beige background.

Personal Details

Height
6’2”
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Chestnut
Voice
Tenor
Spotlight ID
Contact
Ben Buratta, Course Leader, ben.buratta@cssd.ac.uk / Industry Liaison Manager, Industry.Liaison@cssd.ac.uk

Profile

Pronouns: he/him

Training

2021 - 2024
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - BA (Hons) Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theatre)
2018 - 2018
National Youth Theatre of Great Britain

Productions at Central

2023
Oliver de Boys - As You Like It (Neil Bartlett)
2023
Brutus - Coriolanus (Richard Delaney)
2023
Jonah (Joanna) - Present Laughter (Jack McMahon)
2022
Peter - Salt Slow (Emily Aboud)
2022
Stanley Kowalski - A Streetcar Named Desire (Ben Buratta)
2022
Don Pedro - Much Ado About Nothing (Stephen Hudson)
2022
Yasha - The Cherry Orchard (Nicole Charles)
2021
Wisehammer - Our Country’s Good (Sinead Rushe)

Experience

Film

2023
Imelda’s Assistant - Good Grief - Netflix (Dan Levy)

Theatre (Highlights)

2023
Chris - Up All Night - NYT - Duke of York's Theatre (Dawn Walton)
2021
Actor/Deviser - ‘Class’ - S.S Daley & NYT - London Fashion Week (Paul Roseby )
2021
‘Charlie’ / Writer - The Definition of Charisma - Naked Bear Theatre (Nay Oliver Murphy)
2019
Prospero - The Tempest - Simply Theatre - Geneva (Simon West)
2017
Juliet - Romeo and Juliet - The Firebird Project - Hudson Guild Theatre (NYC) (Leo Lion)
2017
Witch - Into The Woods - Polaris Productions - Hudson Guild Theatre (NYC) (Lecee Johnson)

Awards

National Youth Arts Awards (USA) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, ‘Juliet’ in Romeo and Juliet, 2017
National Youth Arts Awards (USA) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, ‘Donkey’ in Shrek the Musical, 2016

Memberships

Spotlight
National Youth Theatre

Accents

English (Standard)*, British Received Pronunciation*, RP Heightened*, General American*, Australian*, French*, New Orleans 'Yat', General Southern American
* = highly skilled

Skills

BASSC Rapier and Dagger (Distinction)*, BASSC Unarmed (Pass)*, Learning Languages & Accents*, Spoken Word*, Skiing*, Singing*, Roller Skating/Blading, Ice Skating, Biking, Swimming, Ukulele, Reading Sheet Music, Improvisation, Clowning & Comedia D’Elle Arte, Physical Theatre (Jacque LeCoq and Michael Chekhov technique)*, Verbatim Theatre, Devising*, Writing*, Direction & Facilitation, Puppetry, Modelling
* = highly skilled

Languages

English*, French*, Portuguese
* = native/fluent