Mikel Murfi is from Sligo and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.
His performances in theatre include In MiddleTown (Gate Theatre);, Here Comes Trouble – A Show about Friendship (Loco and Reckless Productions / Hawk’s Well Theatre); Dolores (Junk Ensemble); Swan Lake (Teac Damsa); The Man in The Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice (Loco and Reckless Productions); The Last Hotel and Ballyturk (Galway Arts Festival / Landmark / Wide Open Opera); The New Electric Ballroom (Druid); The Chairs (Blue Raincoat Theatre); Morning after Optimism, Playboy of the Western World (Peacock Theatre); The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Abbey Theatre); Giselle, Rite of Spring and Petrushka (Fabulous Beast); Desire under the Elms (Lyric, Hammersmith).
Directing work includes Toraiocht (Fíbín); The Walworth Farce and Penelope (Druid); Trad and The Great Goat Bubble (Galway Arts Festival); The Country Girls (Red Kettle); Diamonds in the Soil (Macnas); Waiting for Godot (Theatre Du Pif, Hong Kong); The Far-Off Hills (Nomad Theatre Network).
Film credits include The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, Intermission, Sweety Barrett, The Butcher Boy, Love and Rage, Guiltrip and most recently Jimmy’s Hall, and as a director Druma and John Duffy’s Brother.