ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Training London Contemporary Dance School

Stage credits include: For Adventures in Motion Pictures: Associate Director and recreated the role of Clara in Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and national tour (02/03); Associate Director and created the role of Rita in the original cast of The Car Man, Old Vic Season (2000), U.K. & European tours, Los Angeles and Japan (2000-02), Rehearsal Director for the original production of Swan Lake and Sadler’s Wells season (1995), and U.K. tour, and roles including, French and Spanish Princesses and the Queen in the West End, Los Angeles, Broadway, London Dominion seasons, (1996-00), Rehearsal Director and created the role of Judy in original cast of Cinderella, West End & Los Angeles seasons (1997-98), created parts in Highland Fling (1994-95), The Infernal Galop, and The Percys of Fitzrovia (1993); Clara in the original production of Nutcracker!, Opera North (1992), and Sadler’s Wells (1993-94), Deadly Serious (1992), and Town and Country (1991).

Other stage credits include: Images Dance Theatre (founder member and performer 1985 - 90); Scottish Dance Theatre (1986); Arc Dance Company (1991); she created the role of Netta in This is the Picture (1995) with Aletta Collins Dance Company, for Dance Umbrella.

Television and Film credits include:Clara in Nutcracker! (AMP/BBC,2003); Rita in The Car Man (AMP/Channel 4, 2001); Swan Lake (AMP/BBC 2, 1998); Late Flowering Lust (AMP/BBC 2, 1993); Drip – A Narcissistic Love Story (AMP/BBC Dance for the Camera season); Roald Dahl’s Red Riding Hood (BBC, 1995); Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC 2, 1995), and Storm (Aletta Collins/BBC Dance for the Camera season 1995).

Choreography credits include:Le Nozze di Figaro ,directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans for Opera Holland park (2004)The Way of the World, directed by Selina Cadell at Wilton’s Music Hall (2003); Re-staging AMP’s Nutcracker! (Sadlers Wells, 1994); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Dawn French and Director Matthew Francis) Albery Theatre (2001); The Lost Child, Unicorn at the Arts Theatre (1997); for Aletta Collins, Restaged Arena Stage Carmen, Australia (1989-90).

Other credits include: Etta teaches throughout the U.K. and abroad for dance companies and dance institutions, as well as being a freelance faculty member at the London Contemporary Dance School and Young Place.

Etta is Associate Director for New Adventures and in this role has been part of the restaging of New Adventures production of Swan Lake for 10th Anniversary season 2004/05

Etta dedicates her performances to her mum Jean, who was the most amazing mum in the world.

AS DANCER

ETTA MURFITT
DANCER
For New Adventures
Edward Scissorhands - Peg Boggs
Nutcracker! - Clara, Mrs Dross

For Adventures in Motion Pictures
The Car Man - Associate Director and Rita
Swan Lake - Rehearsal Director and French and Spanish Princesses and the Queen
Cinderella - Rehearsal Director and Judy
Highland Fling
The Infernal Galop
The Percys of Fitzrovia
Nutcracker! - Clara
Deadly Serious
Town and Country