Jack Murphy has contributed to a wide variety of theatrical projects, as a performer and composer as well as a writer of books and lyrics. Wonderland, which opened on Broadway in April 2011, with music by Frank Wildhorn, book by Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and direction by Boyd, is the latest of his many shows, and will surely not be the last. He has had several collaborators, principally composer Wildhorn, with whom he has worked for twenty years or more.
With Wildhorn, and Gregory Boyd, director of the Alley Theater in Houston, Texas, as bookwriter, he wrote the lyrics for The Civil War, a show that earned him a Tony® nomination for Best Score when it debuted at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in April 1999.
