Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy is an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, Tony® and Peabody® Award-winning screenwriter, producer and director. He created the cult-favorite series “Popular”; Golden Globe-winning television drama “Nip/Tuck”; Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series “Glee”; Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning anthology series “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story”; Emmy-winning anthology series “Feud,” “Pose,” “Scream Queens” and “9-1-1.”
Murphy’s first installment of “American Crime Story,” “The People vs OJ Simpson,” was released in 2016 and earned 10 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series. The second installment, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” won seven Emmy Awards in 2018, including Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series and Outstanding Limited Series, and won two Golden Globes for Best Television Limited Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series. Murphy’s FX drama, “Pose,” has earned 20 Emmy Awards nominations, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Billy Porter in 2019. The show also made history by featuring the largest transgender series regular cast and the largest LGBTQ cast ever for a scripted series. The anthology’s third installment, “American Crime Story: Impeachment,” was released in September 2021. Murphy’s first installment of the FX drama “Feud,” “Bette and Joan,” was released in March 2017 and won two Emmy Awards. The following installment of FX’s “Feud,” “Capote vs. The Swans,” premiered this January.
Murphy recently wrote, directed and produced several series for Netflix including “Halston,” which was nominated for five Emmy awards; “Hollywood,” which was nominated for 12 Emmy awards; “The Politician,” which was nominated for eight Emmy awards and two Golden Globes, including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy; “Ratched,” which had 48 million viewers in its first 28 days after release and received four Emmy Awards nominations; “The Andy Warhol Diaries,” which premiered in March 2022; “The Watcher,” starring Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale and Jennifer Coolidge; and “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” starring Evan Peters, which received 701.37 million hours viewed in its first three weeks and has been nominated for 13 Emmy awards.
On stage, Murphy produced the Tony® Award-winning Broadway hit “The Boys in the Band,” starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer. In 2020, he produced a film adaptation of the play for Netflix featuring the same cast.
Murphy directed the HBO movie “The Normal Heart,” which received Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie. He also wrote and directed the Golden Globe-nominated film “Running with Scissors,” starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow, and the box office hit “Eat, Pray, Love,” starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Murphy most recently directed the feature adaptation of the Broadway hit, “The Prom,” which received two Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
In 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; and in 2019, he was selected as a Titan for Time Magazine’s annual 100 Most Influential People list.
He is currently working on “American Sports Story,” a series which follows the story convicted murderer and former member of the New England Patriots, Aaron Hernandez; and “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” based on the story of the infamous brothers murdering their parents in 1989.