Muire Dougherty is a New York-based writer, actor, editor, and filmmaker originally from Northern California.  

Muire began acting as a child, performing in avant-garde theatre productions in the San Francisco Bay Area.  After relocating to New York City in 1991, Muire starred in productions at P.S. 122, Movement Research/Judson Church, LaMama E.T.C., Theater for the New City, and numerous houses of vaudeville and burlesque as an actor and performance artist.  In the early 2000s she created, wrote, and hosted the cabaret show Strip Search, which proved to be a founding platform for the New Burlesque movement. Muire has also worked as a voice actor for television and film, including MTV’s seminal nineties program Liquid Television, and played Cassandra in the cult feature film The Deviants, distributed by Troma Pictures.

As a filmmaker, Muire works in the short narrative genre, and has garnered over fifteen national and international awards. Her acclaimed film, Corazon Mundial, was featured at the inaugural New York Underground Film Festival, and aired on national television on PBS’s First Exposure.   Muire was employed in the motion picture industry for over a decade in a number of roles, including director, production designer, location sound recordist, and stylist.

Muire authored a memoir with the working title of Provisionally Occupied: The True Story of an American Waif, detailing the struggles and triumphs of a young performer who becomes a homeless runaway at 15.  In 2010 Muire co-edited the hit humor book Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010, written and illustrated by Michael Kupperman and published by Fantagraphics Books.  She also contributed to the editing of Kupperman’s critically acclaimed graphic novel All the Answers, published by Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster in 2017.  She has blogged for various cultural criticism sites, and is the author of several feature screenplays. 

Muire holds an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Film Program, where she was the recipient of both the Paulette Goddard and Helena Rubinstein Awards.  She received a BA from San Francisco State University in Visual Media Production/Creative Writing. She resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, comic artist Michael Kupperman, and their young son.