Line #37 Creator/RyanMurphy


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3	->''"I feel every day that everything I create – everything I do – I want it to be a risk."''
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5	Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 30, 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American writer, director, and producer, known for his work as a ShowRunner for a number of television series.
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7	Works associated with him include:
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9	* ''Series/{{Popular}}'' (1999–2001): A high school dramedy series.
10	* ''Series/NipTuck'' (2003–10): A soap opera about plastic surgeons.
11	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (2009–15): A "post-modern musical" dramedy about a high school glee club.
12	* ''Series/TheGleeProject'' (2011–12): A reality competition wherein hopefuls vie for a spot on ''Glee''.
13	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' (2011–present): ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, the series features a different plotline and setting with several of the same cast members each season, oftentimes playing different characters but occasionally revisiting some from previous seasons.
14	* ''Series/TheNewNormal'' (2012–13): A dom-com about a gay couple trying to have a baby.
15	* ''Film/EatPrayLove'' (2010): A film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir about her journey from unhappiness to love and fulfillment.
16	* ''Theatre/TheNormalHeart'' (2014): A TV-movie adaptation of Larry Kramer's play about the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in early-'80s New York.
17	* ''Series/{{Scream Queens\|2015}}'' (2015–16): A horror-comedy series spoofing the slasher genre. Its first season was about a series of murders on a college campus. The second season took place in a hospital, with some of the original main cast members reprising their roles.
18	* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' (2016–present): A true crime counterpart to ''American Horror Story''.
19	* ''Series/{{Feud}}'' (2017–present): An anthology series about infamous rivalries in history.
20	* ''Series/NineOneOne'' (2018–present): A police and rescue procedural centering around first responders in Los Angeles.
21	* ''Series/{{Pose}}'' (2018–21): A period drama about the ballroom dancing community of the 1980s and '90s.
22	* ''Series/ThePolitician'' (2019): A dramedy about an ambitious high schooler with political aspirations.
23	* ''Series/NineOneOneLoneStar'' (2020–present): A spinoff series about a New York firefighter who, along with his son, relocates to Austin, Texas.
24	* ''Series/{{Hollywood\|2020}}'' (2020): A miniseries about the effort to challenge homophobia and racial prejudice in 1940s Hollywood.
25	* ''Theatre/TheProm'' (2020): A film adaptation of the musical comedy about a lesbian's fight to attend her high school prom.
26	* ''Series/{{Ratched}}'' (2020): An origin story of Nurse Ratched from ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
27	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStories'' (2021–present): A spinoff {{Anthology}} series featuring individualized, self-contained episodes.
28	* ''Film/MrHarrigansPhone'' (2022): An adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing story of the same name.
29	* ''Series/{{Monster\|2022}}'': A TrueCrime AnthologySeries about notorious crimes from twentieth-century America.
30	** ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory'' (2022): A biographical TrueCrime miniseries about the titular serial killer.
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33	!!Some tropes associated with Ryan Murphy include:
34	* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: His volume of work is staggering and he can usually be counted on to run two shows at once with film work in between.
35	* AuthorAppeal: It has been repeatedly pointed out that a large chunk of Ryan's ProductionPosse consists of TallDarkAndHandsome white men, most of them with piercing blue eyes and strong jawlines.
36	* {{Camp}}: Most of Murphy's works throw [[WorldOfHam ham]], fashion, celebrity, music and sex into a blender (with occasional spouts of horror and violence thrown into spice things up) and chug down what results.
37	* DeadpanSnarker: Watch his comments toward some of the contestants on ''The Glee Project''. It's little wonder where the characters in his series get it from.
38	* LargeHam: Everyone in a Murphy series pitches to the rafters with actors seemingly [[HamToHamCombat trying to outdo one another]] in chewing scenery.
39	* LighterAndSofter: ''Glee'' and ''The New Normal'', especially in comparison with his darkest works such as ''[=Nip/Tuck=]'' or ''American Horror Story''.
40	* OvershadowedByControversy: In recent years, Murphy became the central focus of criticism related to his use of real-life cases and historical figures in his works, seen at best as clumsy or poorly researched, at worst as completely indecent. Started by some later seasons of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' (the depictions of Anton LaVey in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryApocalypse'' or of Richard Ramirez in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory1984'') and some seasons of ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' (the creative liberties of ''Series/TheAssassinationOfGianniVersace''), the controversy fully exploded with the release of his highly divisive true-crime show, ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory''.
41	* ProductionPosse: Many of the actors from one series will appear in the next, whether as an Expy of their former character or not. Expect ShoutOut s and {{Actor Allusion}}s to abound.
42	* PromotedFanboy: In this case the one who grants ascension, as several actors have been hired or promoted because Murphy enjoyed their audition or one-off performance.
43	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: ''Scream Queens'' and ''AHS'' zigzag back and forth between them constantly, with the former tilted more towards comedy and the latter tilted more towards the scary stuff.
44	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Most of his shows tend to be inclined towards to the cynical side, but other shows like ''Glee'' and ''The New Normal'' are more inclined towards the idealistic side.
45	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
46	** The fourth series of ''American Crime Story'' was originally going to be about UsefulNotes/BillClinton's sex scandal and subsequent impeachment. Ryan met with Monica Lewinsky to get her blessing, but during the meeting decided that it was her story to tell, not Clinton's. ''Then'' she later agreed to produce it, and it began development as the show's third season.
47	** He was going to make a cameo appearance AsHimself in ''Series/Watchmen2019'', where in the AlternateHistory where real life masked heroes exist he created a show about them rather than ''American Crime Story'', called ''American Hero Story''. It's still considered canon that he's the show's creator, and is a ReclusiveArtist who the public knows almost nothing about.

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