Client details
Tom Morris
Writer/Director/Producer
| St John Donald |
| 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 |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TO THE ISLAND WITH THE GOOSE (1999) | BAC | AS DIRECTOR Ben Park |
| WAR HORSE (2007) | NT Olivier | AS DIRECTOR Written by Nick Stafford (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 With Carl Heap |
| THE WOODEN FROCK (2004) | Kneehigh Theatre | AS WRITER / ADAPTOR With Emma Rice |
| JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (2003) | BAC | AS WRITER / ADAPTOR With Carl Heap |
| BEN-HUR (2002) | BAC | AS WRITER / ADAPTOR 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 |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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 OPERA | BAC 1996 - 2003 | AS PRODUCER Various |
