Conrad Murray
Conrad Murray is a theatre maker, director, musician, writer and composer. As artistic director, he has led the BAC Beatbox Academy since 2008, innovating in hop hop/ beatbox theatre with various projects.
BAC Beatbox Academy recent production of ‘Pied Piper’ recently won an Offie award for Music and Sound for Theatre for Young Audiences.
He was recently the Musical Director and Composer on Michael Rosens’ An Unexpected Twist’, book by Roy Williams.
His production with the BAC Beatbox Academy, ‘Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster’ got 5 star reviews from The Stage, The Guardian and others. It won the Off West End award, Total theatre award, and was the highest rated show of the Edinburgh Fringe, and won pick of the fringe at the Adelaide fringe festival. It was adapted into a BBC film in 2020.
Pilots’ Crongton Knights (Musical Director was picked as one of the top theatre shows of the year by the Guardian in 2020.
He was chosen as part of the Stage’s top 100 people in their 2020 list which highlighted his show ‘High rise eState Of Mind’ with his theatre company Beats & Elements, and a finalist in The Arts Foundations theatre makers category.
He was Beatbox Coach on Giles Terera’s ‘The Meaning Of Zong’ for the Bristol Old Vic.
As director he worked on Connor Allen’s five star autobiographical Grime theatre experience ‘Making Of A Monster’ for the Wales Millennium Centre.
He is currently working with director Marc Jobst (‘One Piece’, ‘Daredevil’, ‘Witcher’) on a musical film HOME.
In 2022, his first published works were published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, ‘Making hip hop theatre and three original texts Beatbox & Elements – A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy’.
He has collaborated and/ or made work for various venues and institutions including Battersea Arts Centre, The National Theatre Studio, The Lyric Hammersmith, Mountview School of Theatre Arts, LAMDA, The Tate, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Camden People’s Theatre, HOME Manchester, Roundhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East, UCL, The Courtyard Theatre.