Leopold Murphy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: lmurphy@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Professor Leopold Murphy is a Coach/Facilitator and Award-winning Actor.
As an actor, he has performed Internationally, in Lagos, Nigeria and Moscow, Russia. He is a New York based actor. Some of his NY theatre acting credits include numerous productions with The Classical Theatre of Harlem: Macbeth, The Crazy Locomotive, Mother Courage, and as the trumpet playing, Levee in August Wilson’s, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; from which he was awarded the Audelco Award for Best Actor in a Play; while also, originating lead roles at the Billie Holiday Theatre, and numerous Regional Theatres across the country. Some Regional credits include; Scorched at Syracuse Stage, Intimate Apparel at Portland Stage, Of Mice and Men at The Hangar Theatre, Blood Knot at Stamford Theatreworks, The Merchant of Venice and Taming of a Shrew at the A.R.T., and the title role of Othello and Two Gentlemen of Verona at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Some of his television and film credits include: Law & Order, Shades of Blue, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, White Collar, Mercy, All My Children, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, The Assassins, Exceed!, Capers, 6 Things I Never Told You and Strike.
Leopold is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College where he has taught Fundamentals of Speech, Intro to Theatre and Voice & Movement classes; as well as covered Acting I and II classes.
Outside of BMCC: Since 2003 he has been an Acting Coach for Theatre, Television/Film. And a facilitator, working with several NYC based CBOs, NYC Dept. of Education (with a primary focus on Social Emotional Learning); providing training, classes and workshops, while serving diverse populations throughout the five boroughs.
Expertise
Degrees
Bachelor’s Theatre Arts – Cal State Northridge
MFA Acting – Moscow Art Theatre/A.R.T. at Harvard University
Courses Taught
- The collaborative nature of the theatrical event will be explored in readings, presentations, play attendance, papers and creative projects. Contributions of the playwright, actor, director, designer, architect, critic, producer and audience will be investigated through selected periods, genres, theatre spaces and styles of production. The student's potential roles and responsibilities in creating theatre will be emphasized.
- An introduction to voice and body work. Students will participate in warm-ups and exercises that promote concentration, relaxation, trust, vocal resonance, physical flexibility, and strength.
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
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