About Jack.

Jack F. Murphy is an NYC-based, Wisconsin-bred performing artist and educator, equally at home in the worlds of light opera, musical theatre, and pop/rock styles. Recent productions include Utopia, Limited and The Mikado on tour with NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players, The Irish...and How They Got That Way at Playhouse on Park, and his third season at Ohio Light Opera as a Resident Professional Artist, with titles including Brigadoon (Tommy), Tip-Toes (Uncle Hen), and The Cousin from Batavia (Egon von Wildenhaven). Additional OLO highlights include Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson), Orpheus in the Underworld (Orpheus), The Count of Luxembourg (Count Rene of Luxembourg), and Me and My Girl (Gerald Bolingbroke). 

 

Other performance credits include You've Got A Friend: The Music of Carole King onboard the Cunard Queen Mary 2, Titanic: The Musical (Fleet/Guggenheim/Carlson, Ismay (u/s)), Street Scene in concert (Sam Kaplan), both directed by Broadway veteran Ted Sperling at NYU, and Hair (Claude) with Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Murphy was also part of the NYU workshop of Benjamin Halstead and Joey Contreras’s new musical, Heartbreakers in Hell (The Glutton/Sky), directed by Broadway's Hunter Bird. 

 

Murphy has performed at several renowned NYC venues, including 54 Below, The Green Room 42, The Cutting Room, and the Triad Theatre, as well as David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, where he performed as part of the grand reopening ceremonies in the fall of 2022 with the New York Philharmonic. Murphy also performed at the legendary Radio City Music Hall and Yankee Stadium in May 2024 as a part of the commencement ceremonies for New York University. He is an award-winning singer, with accolades including "Best Performer in a Musical" through BroadwayWorld Hawaii and consecutive first-place titles at the New York City, Wisconsin, and Eastern Region NATS Competitions for categories spanning classical to musical theatre to pop/rock styles.

 

​In addition to his work as a singing actor, Jack is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and music educator. Jack also regularly performs and tours with multiple bands across the East Coast and Midwest, including Murphy’s Law, a rock group he shares with his two brothers. Along with his brother Michael, Murphy recently co-created Unplugged Legends, a tribute show to the great singer-songwriter era of the 1960s/70s.

 

He received a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance (Music Theatre)/Vocal Pedagogy from New York University and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Lawrence University. His life's vocation is to connect and educate through the performing arts, making the world a more joyful and brighter place.