Biographies

Shawn Douglas Murphy

Artistic Director

Shawn is the Artistic Director for pivotal(arts) theatre company, inc. and the Technical Director for the annual WriteNOW! Festival of New Works.

pivotal(arts) credits include, Director - Crime Scene, written by Daniel J. Karpenchuk; Writer & Performer - A Crack in the Ceiling, co-written with Jennifer De Lucia & Deanna L. Palazzo; Producer - Off the Hook, Cookies and Ashes & Inside Out.

Outside of pivotal(arts), Shawn is a freelance stage-manager having worked with renowned artists Michael Kash, Kelly Straughn, David Ferry, Rosa Laborde, Jerry Ciccoritti, Michael Rawley and Sky Gilbert.  He has also worked with The Second City, Toronto, as the Educational Company Stage Manager and Technical Director.