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).

Etta Murfitt
Movement Director, Choreographer & Intimacy Coordinator
