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Etta is Associate Artistic Director of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and has performed and collaborated on

many shows which include Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Edward Scissorhands, Romeo and Juliet, Midnight

Bell and most recently The Red Shoes and Car Man. Etta has worked with Emma Rice and Mike Shepherd for

Kneehigh theatre in many shows and these include Wild Bride, The Flying Lovers of Vibsek, 946, Dead Dog in a

Suitcase and Tim Drum.

Etta is also Movement Director and Choreographer for the Emma Rice Company & she performed in and

choreographed the inaugural production Wise Children (Old Vic, London).

Choreography credits include The Unbelievers (Royal Court Theatre); North By Northwest (Wise Children UK

Tour); Choreographic Associate for Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Buddha of Suburbia (Royal

Shakespeare Company/Wise Children & Barbican); Blue Beard (Wise Children UK Tour); Wuthering

Heights (National Theatre/US Tour); Bagdad Café (Old Vic); Wise Children (Old Vic & UK Tour); Romantics

Anonymous (Bristol Old Vic/Sam Wanamaker Theatre); Orpheus in the Underworld (English National Opera); A

Clockwork Orange (Everyman & Playhouse); The Tin Drum (Kneehigh Theatre/UK Tour), Much Ado About

Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Le Nozze di Figaro (Holland Park Opera), The

Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall), The Infernal Galop (Images of Dance / Sarasota Ballet), A Midsummer

Night’s Dream (Albery Theatre), Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Kneehigh Theatre Co. / Leicester Curve and Gielgud

Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Haymarket Theatre), Wild Bride

and Midnights Pumpkin (Kneehigh Theatre Co./ Asylum Tent Cornwall), Travesties (Birmingham Rep), Sleeping

Beauty (Birmingham Rep).

As Associate Director and Performer for AMP/New Adventures: Romeo & Juliet; Sleeping Beauty; The Midnight

Bell; The Red Shoes; Romeo & Juliet; Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (Original London and LA productions), Dorian

Gray, Edward Scissorhands, Nutcracker! Etta also originated roles in Nutcracker (Opera North and Sadler’s

Wells), The Car Man (Old Vic), Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells, West End, LA & Broadway), Highland

Fling (Donmar Warehouse & UK tours); The Infernal Galop, The Percy’s of Fitzrovia, Deadly Serious and Town &

Country.

TV & Film credits include Nutcracker (BBC/NVC), The Car Man (Channel 4), Cinderella (South Bank Show,

ITV), 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), Swan Lake 3D (Sky Arts).

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Etta Murfitt

Movement Director, Choreographer & Intimacy Coordinator

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