Jennifer Murphy: Head of Music Theatre
Jennifer came to prominence in 1980 when she was cast by Broadway director Harold Prince in the lead role of the Australian premiere performance of “Evita”. Her career has been a featured story on “Sixty Minutes” and has been listed in The Australian Book of Lists as one of Australia’s best female vocalists. Jennifer has directed and performed in shows Australia wide and overseas for the past 30 years. Along with her position as Head of Music Theatre at AIM, Jennifer is currently Artistic Director of the Catholic Schools Performing Arts unit (CaSPA), and is a voice and performance coach for television, film and theatre productions in Australia and overseas. Recently Jennifer was voice coach and music consultant on the feature films “Razzle Dazzle” and “Thunderstruck”, voice consultant for the musicals “Dusty”, “Priscilla” and for ch9’s “Starstruck”. In 2008 she was Artistic director for many performance events during the Papal visit including the Pope's arrival at Barrangaroo. She has produced and directed countless theatre and cabaret shows over the past 20 years with her husband Spud Murphy (Musical Director of “Priscilla” The Musical). Her connection to the performing arts at the level of nurturing emerging talent in schools to developing talent at AIM in preparation for a career in the industry has proven to be the most rewarding episode in her professional journey thus far.

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