Sarah Jane Murray

Sarah Jane Murray is an Irish-born academic and Emmy-nominated filmmaker[1] who works in the United States.

She teaches great books, creative writing, film making, interactive storytelling (AR, VR, XR, story for game design), and the ethics of storytelling at Baylor University as a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing.

[4] She is also the author of Basics of Story Design: Twenty Steps to an Insanely Great Screenplay (AnderEd, 2017), and a children’s book, Ralph’s Christmas Quest (CatSpring, 2019).

[5][6] In 2018, she was recognized as one of the fifty women changing the entertainment and media industry, and most likely to help bring about gender parity in Hollywood.

[7] In 2023, she founded The Greats Story Lab at the intersection of film, education, and emerging technologies.