That would be a busy slate for anyone-but this is the peak-content era, where each day seems to bring news of another creator defecting from established studios and networks to streaming services-whether heavyweights like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu or upcoming launches such as Apple TV+, Disney+ and HBO Max-with the promise of capacious budgets and creative freedom. He still has two shows on Fox- 9-1-1 and an upcoming spin-off-and three on the cable network FX: Pose, American Horror Story and a new installment of American Crime Story, which will follow the Monica Lewinsky scandal. “But then I have a full physical, and it’s like, I’m fine.”įor someone with at least 15 projects in the works, he’s unusually hands-on with all of them: writing, directing and producing. “I say I can’t keep going at this pace,” he says. Murphy, 53, schedules his days into short intervals-15 minutes, or 30-and works seven days a week. A colleague brings him a single shot of espresso.

Outside, the studio lot is surprisingly sedate. We’re in his tidy trailer on a set in Hollywood, at the end of the last day of shooting for The Boys in the Band, a play that Murphy revived on Broadway in 2018 and is now producing as a feature film for Netflix.

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