Eric Murphy

Novels:

The Phantom's Gold: Y.A novel (series of historical novels) Publisher: Cormorant Books, May 2013. 196 pages. To save their family home from a vengeful lawyer, a grandfather and grandson must race a haunted sailboat.
The Dead Man’s Boot: Y.A novel, Publisher: Cormorant Books, Oct 2015, 182 pages.
While trying to protect leatherback turtles from an energy company’s illegal seismic testing, young Will is falsely accused of murder.
The Bermuda Shipwreck: YA novel, Publisher: Cormorant Books, Oct 2016, 173 pages.
Tricked into delivering a client’s boat to Bermuda, Will and Harley are coerced into diving for a Civil War blockade runner that sank, laden with gold. Adapted screenplay.
The Smugglers’ Tunnel: YA novel, manuscript completed. Guilt-ridden by his father’s recent death, an intrepid 13-year old risks his life to save a young horse whisperer from his human smugglers. Adapted as screenplay
Blowback: (thriller) Manuscript completed. Adapted as screenplay.
While on assignment in Moscow, a disgraced investigative journalist survives a Chechen bombing and discovers the CIA is sponsoring the terror campaign to secure oil rights to the Caspian Sea — the story of his career, if he lives to write it.
Insight: (female-driven action thriller) When a mature student’s groundbreaking engineering software detects bodies buried near an environmentally controversial pipeline, she’s targeted by a violent white supremacist militia.

5 Screenplays written, one optioned.

WRITER/PRODUCER:
Has written/produced dozens of web-based stories & corporate videos.
Has written and hosted a pilot for an environmental series "Home Planet".

PERFORMER:
Hundreds of hours of production in films, TV, theatre and commercials.

FORMAL EDUCATION:
B.A. St. Patrick's College, Carleton U, Ottawa. (Political Sc. & French Lit)
MA Laval University, Québec, PQ
Thesis: French Foreign Policies Towards Israel, from 1956 to 1967.
Research done in Québec, Montréal, Paris, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem.
LANGUAGES: Fluent in both English and French (spoken and written)
GRANTS: Telefilm, OAC, TAC, OMDC & Super Channel.

Eric lives with his family in Toronto where he works as an actor and writer. For a decade he served as the elected VP of Member Services with ACTRA Toronto. After writing his MA in Québec City, he worked in New York, Paris and London. Eric is proud of his AFBS volunteer of the year award for his 125 blood donations, years of volunteer work with youth sports and ‘Out of the Cold’ (feeding the homeless & working poor.)