Etta Murfitt MBE
(She/ Her)
Associate Artistic Director
Overview
Joined New Adventures in 1991
Etta Murfitt is the Associate Artistic Director of New Adventures. She has performed in, collaborated on and staged numerous productions for the company including The Midnight Bell, Romeo and Juliet, The Red Shoes, Swan Lake, Early Adventures, Cinderella, Dorian Gray, Edward Scissorhands, Highland Fling, Nutcracker!, The Car Man, The Infernal Galop, The Percys of Fitzrovia, Deadly Serious and Town and Country.
She is the Movement Director and Choreographer for Emma Rice’s Wise Children. Credits for the company include North by Northwest (Directed by Emma Rice, UK Tour); Blue Beard (Directed by Emma Rice. UK Tour); Bagdad Café (Directed by Emma Rice. Old Vic); Wuthering Heights (Directed by Emma Rice. Bristol Old Vic, York Theatre Royal, National Theatre, UK Tour and USA Tour); Romantics Anonymous (Directed by Emma Rice); Choreographer and Nora in Emma Rice's Wise Children.
Etta was awarded an MBE in June 2022 for services to dance.
Credits
For New Adventures
- The Midnight Bell
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Red Shoes
- Swan Lake
- Early Adventures
- Cinderella
- Dorian Gray
- Edward Scissorhands
- Highland Fling
- Nutcracker!
- The Car Man
- The Infernal Galop
- The Percys of Fitzrovia
- Deadly Serious
- Town and Country
Other Career Highlights
- Unbelievers – Royal Court, Directed by Marianne Elliot
- Buddha of Suburbia – RSC
- Oliver! – Chichester/CML
- Opera Glass works film of La Traviata – Directed by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson
- Would You Bet Against Us – Directed by Paul Hunter, Told by an Idiot Choreography
- Orpheus and the Underworld – Directed by Emma Rice for ENO
- Clockwork Orange – Everyman Theatre
- Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream – Globe
- Tin Drum – Kneehigh
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Kneehigh
- Dead Dog in a Suitcase – Kneehigh
- Steptoe and Son – Kneehigh
- Midnight's Pumpkin – Kneehigh
- Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Kneehigh
- 946 – Kneehigh
- Wild Bride – Kneehigh
- A Chorus of Disapproval – Harold Pinter Theatre
- Rufus Norris' Sleeping Beauty – Birmingham Rep
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Chichester and Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Le Nozze di Figaro – Holland Park Opera
- The Way of the World – Wilton's Music Hall
- A Midsummer Night's Dream – Albery Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – West Yorkshire Playhouse
Television and Film
- Wise Children – More2Screen Nora
- Nutcracker! – BBC/NVC Clara
- The Car Man – Channel 4 Rita
- Swan Lake – BBC
- Late Flowering Lust – BBC
- Roald Dahl's Red Riding Hood – BBC
- Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre – BBC
- Storm – Aletta Collins/BBC Dance for the Camera
- Matthew Bourne’s Christmas – Channel 4