Margaret Murphy is a three time National Emmy Award winning producer/director/writer/editor whose work covers the areas of news, documentary, sports and children’s programming as well as dramatic features. She began her career at Sesame Street producing and editing dozens of short films for the series and went on to co-create the pilot for “Animals, Animals, Animals”, ABC’s Emmy and Peabody Award winning childrens’ series. She received a Video of the Year Grammy Award nomination for “Fun and Games” an interactive DVD for children featuring Bill Murray, Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters and prominent Broadway performers. She also created the first sports special for Nickelodeon, “Circles and Spins” based on a figure skating competition. At CBS News, she served as a chief editor for “60 Minutes” and “The Mike Wallace Profiles”.

She won her first National Emmy as an editor with the ABC Sports’ Olympic Unit and won another National Emmy as a Producer for ABC’s Nightline. For the PBS series, Smithsonian World, she won a National Emmy for her profile of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, an honor shared with noted historian David McCullough.

She was later hired by legendary Creative Director, Bill Backer as a producer/editor at McCann-Erickson Worldwide to work on the Coca-Cola account for two years.

She developed two stories that became CBS Movies, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek and, for Belzberg/Murphy Productions, “Unforgiveable” focusing on domestic abuse of women. She was also a producer for Lifetime specials with Christie Brinkley, Willow Bay and Elizabeth Vargas.

She served as a member of the original staff of Dateline NBC where she produced more than twenty major features and suggested the title for the series which was inspired by her time at Nightline. For Bloomberg TV, she was the recipient of the LA Press Club Award for Best Profile, an hour documentary on Rupert Murdoch.

Her independent films including “They Are Their Own Gifts” (a trilogy featuring painter Alice Neel, poet Muriel Rukeyser and choreographer Anna Sokolow) have been honored at the New York Film Festival as well as festivals in Berlin, Edinburgh, Chicago, Houston and Denver. “Alice Neel-Painter” co-produced with Lucille Rhodes on the iconic artist was chosen for streaming on the Metropolitan Museum’s web site for their Out of the Archive Festival. The film celebrated the Met’s major exhibition of Neel’s work in 2021.