Michael G. Murphy

Michael G. Murphy, born and raised in Gowanda, NY, joined Shea’s Performing Arts Center as President in October of 2016. He previously served as Managing Director of the Tony-Award-winning Old Globe Theatre in San Diego from 2011 and as its General Manager beginning in 2003. Prior to the Globe, he was the Managing Director of Austin Lyric Opera in Austin, Texas; Director of Administration of San Diego Opera; and General Manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre. Before relocating to San Diego from New York City, he held similar positions at Theatre for a New Audience and the Joyce Theater Foundation’s American Theater Exchange. He also served as negotiating assistant for the League of Resident Theatres and sales representative for Columbia Artists Theatricals Corporation. Mr. Murphy serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre District Association of Western New York, as well as Visit Buffalo Niagara, for whom he is Secretary. In addition, he is the current President of the Board for the National Alliance of Musical Theatre. He has also served on the Board of Directors of National Corporate Theatre Fund and Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, and as a Management Trustee for San Diego County Theatrical Trusts, the pension and welfare trust for IATSE stagehands in the San Diego region. He was also an adjunct faculty member of the Music Department at the University of San Diego. After two years of theatre study at SUNY Fredonia, Mr. Murphy earned his B.F.A. degree in Stage Management from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, and his M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.