Keara Patricia Murphy is a stand-up comedian, actor and playwright from Glasgow, Scotland.

[1] Murphy has worked as a housing officer with Glasgow City Council, caseworker at the Hamish Allan Centre, and drama teacher,[1] and moved to Edinburgh in 1999.

[4] She lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe from 2003 to 2005,[2] and ran a comedy club in Budapest.

[5] She has written three plays about Robert Burns and presented three programmes about him on BBC Radio Scotland.

[6] Murphy's 2016 play The Secret Sex Life of Robert Burns discusses some of the national poet's romantic affairs from the points of view of the women affected, and is the first production by Murphy's Blue Eyed Lassie company, which aims to encourage female artists in Scotland.