Tom Morris

Writer/Director/Producer

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Agent: St John Donald
Assistant: Anthony Joblin

Film, TV & Theatre

Work as a director includes Dr SemmelweisJuliet and her Romeo, The Meaning of Zong (with Giles Terera), Cyrano, King Lear, Touching the Void, The Grinning Man, Swallows & Amazons and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all for Bristol Old Vic and/or West End/International tour), Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Vienna Statsoper), Breaking the Waves (Scottish Opera/ Opera Ventures, EIF, Opera Comique, Adelaide Festival), The Death of Klinghoffer (ENO & Metropolitan Opera), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (NT), War Horse (NT, Lincoln Center and world tour (winning numerous awards including Tony for Best  Director, with co-director Marianne Elliott)), Disembodied, Newsnight: The Opera, Home, Passions, Unsung, Othello Music, Trio and All That Fall (all for BAC). Writing includes A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker (Bristol Old Vic), World Cup Final 1966, Jason & the Argonauts and Ben Hur (all with Carl Heap for BAC), The Wooden Frock, Nights at the Circus and A Matter of Life and Death (all with Emma Rice for Kneehigh) and the libretto for Orpheus in Hell for ENO.

He was Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic from 2009 to 2022, where he re-established the theatre’s programme after closure, conceived and directed two landmark festivals (Bristol Proms, festival of world class music and integrated digital technology in collaboration with Watershed Bristol and Universal Music, and Bristol Jam: Britain’s first festival of improvised performance). He also oversaw a major restoration and refurbishment of Britain’s oldest continuously working theatre – creating direct visibility from the street for the very first time. He was Artistic Director of BAC from 1995 to 2004 where he established the scratch developmental programme, restructured the organisation, set up and curated A Sharp Intake of Music, Playing in the Dark, the British Festival of Visual Theatre and the Sam Shepard Festival, and BAC Opera, where he produced Jerry Springer the Opera. Morris, has been Associate Director at the National Theatre since 2004, was founding Chair of the JMK Trust, is the current Chair of Complicité, has honorary doctorates from UWE and Bristol University, and an OBE for services to Theatre.   

For all enquiries relating to opera and classical music, please contact Sharon Zhu at: sharonzhulondon@gmail.com

Opera

ProductionCompanyNotes

L'ORFEO

2022

Vienna State Opera

DIRECTOR

BREAKING THE WAVES

2019

Scottish Opera / Opera Ventures (2019) & Opera Comique (Paris) & Detroit Opera (2023) & Houston Grand Opera (2025)

DIRECTOR

ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD

2019

ENO

English Lyrics

THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER

2014

The Metropolitan Opera, New York

THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER

2011

English National Opera

DIRECTOR

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

Other

ProductionCompanyNotes

BRISTOL PROMS

Bristol Old Vic

Festival of world class music and integrated digital technology

Theatre

ProductionCompanyNotes

DR SEMMELWEIS

2023

Sonia Friedman Productions

AS DIRECTOR / CO-WRITER

TOUCHING THE VOID

2018

Bristol Old Vic/Duke of York's Theatre

AS DIRECTOR

THE GRINNING MAN

2018

Trafalgar Studios

AS DIRECTOR

WAR HORSE

2017

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

AS DIRECTOR AS PRODUCER Written by Nick Stafford Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo (Co-directed with Marianne Elliott)

KING LEAR

2016

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

AS DIRECTOR by William Shakespeare

THE GRINNING MAN

2016

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

AS DIRECTOR

THE CRUCIBLE

2015

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

AS DIRECTOR by Arthur Miller

WORLD CUP FINAL 1966

2014

Bristol Old Vic

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

2010

Bristol Old Vic

JULIET AND HER ROMEO

2010

Bristol Old Vic

DOES MY SOCIETY LOOK BIG IN THIS?

2012

Bristol Old Vic

EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR

2010

NT Olivier

co-directed with Felix Barrett
By Sir Tom Stoppard

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)

WARHORSE

2007

National Theatre, Olivier

AS PRODUCER

Stafford / Morpurgo

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

2007

National Theatre (Olivier)

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Emma Rice

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH SEASON

2000

BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS

2006

Lyric, Hammersmith

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Emma Rice

DISEMBODIED

2005

National tour

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With David Glass

CORAM BOY

2005

National Theatre, Olivier

AS PRODUCER

Edmundson / Gavin

DISEMBODIED

2005

BAC & tour

AS DIRECTOR

Tom Morris/ David Glass

OOGLY BOOGLY

2004

tour

AS DIRECTOR

Tom Morris/Guy Dartnell

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

HOME

2002

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Helen Chadwick

UNSUNG

2000

BAC & tour

AS DIRECTOR

Guy Dartnell

MACBETH

1999

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Shakespeare

TO THE ISLAND WITH THE GOOSE

1999

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Ben Park

OEDIPUS THE KING

1998

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Sophocles / Peter Oswald

PLAYING IN THE DARK SEASON

1998

BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

THE CRITICS: UP FOR REVIEW

1997

BAC

AS PRODUCER

Various

OTHELLO MUSIC

1997

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Devised

TRIO

1996

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Devised with Trilogy

ALL THAT FALL

1996

BAC

AS DIRECTOR

Samuel Beckett

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

TOM TOM

1987

Stage of Fools

AS WRITER / ADAPTOR

With Nick Vivian