
Ryan Murphy
10 FOLLOWERS • 47 CREDITS • NOV 9, 1965 • 59
Biography
Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 9, 1965) is an American television writer, director, and producer.
He is best known for creating and producing a number of television series including Popular (1999–2001), Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), Glee (2009–2015), American Horror Story (2011–present), Scream Queens (2015–2016), American Crime Story (2016–present), Pose (2018–2021), 9-1-1 (2018–present), The Politician (2019–2020), 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–present), Ratched (2020), American Horror Stories (2021–present), and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022). Murphy also directed the 2006 film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors, the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love, the 2014 film adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, and the 2020 film adaptation of the musical The Prom.
Murphy has received six Primetime Emmy Awards from 36 nominations, a Tony Award from two nominations, and two Grammy Award nominations. He has often been cited as "the most powerful man" in modern television, including having signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses".
Known For
Production Credits

Circus of Books

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Nip/Tuck

Glee: The Concert Movie

Love Story

9-1-1: Lone Star

The New Normal

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

A Secret Love

American Horror Stories

Scream Queens

American Crime Story

9-1-1: Nashville

Monster: Lizzie Borden

Doctor Odyssey

The Andy Warhol Diaries

American Sports Story

The Watcher

Glee

Ratched

The Prom

Grotesquerie

9-1-1

The Politician

The Beauty

All's Fair

The Boys in the Band

American Horror Story

Halston

Pretty/Handsome

POSE

Eat Pray Love

Hollywood

FEUD

Mid-Century Modern

The Shards

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
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