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Tom Morris

Writer/Director/Producer

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St John Donald
Assistant: Rachel Hopkin
+44 (0) 20 3214 0928
About
Tom Morris is Associate Director at the National Theatre where he works on the development of unusual theatre. Recent projects have included CORAM BOY (as producer), A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (as writer) and WAR HORSE (as producer and co-director).

Prior to taking up this post in February 2004, Tom Morris was Artistic Director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) where he revolutionised the programme, oversaw a radical management restructure and led the organisation from the verge of bankruptcy to financial stability.

Under Tom's direction, BAC pioneered adventurous seasonal programming, invented the "scratch programme" and established itself as a national centre for the development of new theatre. This process contributed to the development of Complicite's MNEMONIC, The Shout's TALL STORIES, JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA and to work of Improbable Theatre, Frantic Assembly, Told by an Idiot, Ridiculusmus, Kazuko Hohki, The Table Show, Spymonkey, Kneehigh, Cartoon de Savlo and many other artists and companies.

Journalism and Broadcasting
From 1988 to 1994, Tom was a critic and feature-writer for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, Kaleidoscope, Night Waves, The Late Show and Time Out. He is still an occasional writer and broadcaster for The Observer and BBC Radio 4.

Academia, Education & Miscellaneous
In the 1980's, Tom studied, researched and taught Renaissance Drama and Poetry at Cambridge University, played trombone in a band called Stax Cadillacs and worked in an asylum in Macao. He was a foundation scholar in English Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge (1983-6).

Other
Tom sits on the Boards of Complicite and Punchdrunk and is Chair of the JMK Trust, funding the prestigious JMK Award for young theatre directors. Press One of the Evening Standard’s 50 most influential people in theatre and dance 2007 ‘War Horse only confirms the National’s extraordinary new knack of turning children’s literature into the finest drama. Stunning. More please.’ – Christopher Hart, SUNDAY TIMES War Horse is much more than a show for kids. It is one of the most powerfully moving and imaginative productions of the year, whatever age you happen to be. – Charles Spencer, TELEGRAPH

‘An NT associate, who seems to me to be leading the National into a dead end when it comes to supposedly "experimental" theatre projects.’ – Charles Spencer, TELEGRAPH ‘It’s a phenomenal achievement…To take on of the most revered of movies and make of it something richer and darker. And to prove that a theatrical vocabulary of the future is now flourishing at the National’ – Susannah Clapp, OBSERVER 'To see moulds being broken and recast, the place to go is the BAC’ - THE INDEPENDENT

'the discriminating taste, vision and enthusiasm of Tom Morris has turned BAC into a crucial cog in the London arts scene,' - TIME OUT
Theatre
ProductionCompanyNotes
TO THE ISLAND WITH THE GOOSE
(1999)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Ben Park

WAR HORSE
(2007)
NT Olivier

AS DIRECTOR
AS PRODUCER

Written by Nick Stafford
Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo

(Co-directed with Marianne Elliott)

DISEMBODIED
(2005)
BAC & tour

AS DIRECTOR

Tom Morris/ David Glass

OOGLY BOOGLY
(2004)
tour

AS DIRECTOR

Tom Morris/Guy Dartnell

HOME
(2002)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Helen Chadwick

UNSUNG
(2000)
BAC & tour

AS DIRECTOR

Guy Dartnell

MACBETH
(1999)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Shakespeare

OEDIPUS THE KING
(1998)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Sophocles / Peter Oswald

OTHELLO MUSIC
(1997)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Devised

TRIO
(1996)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Devised with Trilogy

ALL THAT FALL
(1996)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Samuel Beckett

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
(2007)
National Theatre (Olivier)

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Emma Rice

NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS
(2006)
Lyric, Hammersmith

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Emma Rice

DISEMBODIED
(2005)
National tour

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With David Glass

THE WORLD CUP FINAL 1966
(2004)
BAC and tour

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR
AS PRODUCER

With Carl Heap

THE WOODEN FROCK
(2004)
Kneehigh Theatre

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR
AS PRODUCER

With Emma Rice

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
(2003)
BAC

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Carl Heap

BEN-HUR
(2002)
BAC

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR
AS PRODUCER

With Carl Heap

TOM TOM
(1987)
Stage of Fools

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Nick Vivian

WARHORSE
(2007)
National Theatre, Olivier

AS PRODUCER

Stafford / Morpurgo

CORAM BOY
(2005)
National Theatre, Olivier

AS PRODUCER

Edmundson / Gavin

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH SEASON
(2000)
BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

PLAYING IN THE DARK SEASON
(1998)
BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

THE CRITICS: UP FOR REVIEW
(1997)
BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

SAM SHEPARD SEASON
(1996)
BAC

AS PRODUCER

Sam Shepard

CHERRY ORCHARD
(1994)
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

AS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Maly Theatre

REAL TIME
(1993)
British Tour

AS PRODUCER

Tmu-Na Theatre

ESHU'S FAUST
(1992)
Arts Theatre, Cambridge

AS PRODUCER

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Opera
ProductionCompanyNotes
NEWSNIGHT: THE OPERA
(2003)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Various

KOMBAT OPERA KLUBNEIT
(2002)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Richard Thomas

PASSIONS
(2001)
BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Stephen McNeff

JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA
(2001)
BAC

AS PRODUCER

Richard Thomas and Stu Lee

BAC OPERABAC 1996 - 2003

AS PRODUCER

Various

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