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.
In 2016, Murphy’s first installment of American Crime Story, “The People vs OJ Simpson,” won 10 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series. His second
installment of American Crime Story, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” won seven 2018 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series and
Outstanding Limited Series. In 2019, Versace won two Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Limited Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series.
His most recent Netflix series, The Politician, received two 2020 Golden Globe nominations, including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy; POSE was nominated
for two 2019 EMMY Awards, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Billy Porter, and received several Golden Globe Nominations. The show has made
history by featuring the largest transgender series regular cast and the largest LGBTQ cast ever for a scripted series. He also recently co-wrote, directed and
produced the upcoming series Ratched and Hollywood for Netflix.
On stage, he recently produced the Tony® Award-winning Broadway hit The Boys in the Band, starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer.
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.
Next, Murphy will direct the feature adaption of the Broadway hit, The Prom, with a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and James Corden. He has also
produced The Boys in the Band for a 2020 release.
In 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2019, he was selected as a ‘Titan’ for the Time Magazine’s annual 100 Most Influential People list.
It’s Murphy’s commitment to inclusion and representation in his projects, both in front of and behind his camera, that inspires our youth to live boldly and openly
by showing them the vast opportunities their life and future can provide.
He has also been a significant supporter of children’s healthcare. In 2018, Murphy and his husband, David Miller, donated $10 million to Children’s Hospital Los
Angeles in honor of their son Ford who was treated at CHLA for neuroblastoma. In 2019, Ford was declared “cancer free.”