Mike Murphy
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MADE IN CHINA was Mike's first experience in Improvised Comedy while in high school during the nineteen-hundredth and ninety-eighth year of our Lord. Up in Bellingham, Mike attended Western Washington University and graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts, Playwriting. While at school, Mike wrote the plays War Hawks, Moondog and the Lunar New Year, Time is a Piece of Bacon, Pity, and a screenplay for the novel "Cat's Cradle." Mike was also involved with the WWU Improv group Dead Parrots Society from 2000 to 2004. He can play the drums, banjo, and paint pictures of Bat Boy, Indians and UFOs.
- Nickname(s):
- "Murph Dirty"
- Hometown:
- Everett, WA
- Joined Jet City:
- 2006
- Favorite movie:
- The Big Lebowski, Battlefield Earth
- Favorite book:
- Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"
- Favorite Food:
- Anything not poisoned.
- Favorite CD/album:
- Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," Mos Def's "Black on Both Sides"
- Favorite Improv Game:
- Serious Scene
- Favorite Seattle Spot:
- Piper Creek Pub, 105th & Greenwood
- Personal Hero:
- Vonnegut, Dylan, Frank Zappa, Perry Mills
- Favorite Quote:
- "I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist." --Bob Dylan
