Tom Morris (Director)

Tom Morris is an award-winning director, writer and producer, best known for co-directing War Horse.

Tom Morris is directing a production of Othello at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, starring David Harewood, Toby Jones & Caitlin FitzGerald.

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Tom Morris – Biography

Tom Morris 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.

His major productions include Dr Semmelweis, Juliet and her Romeo, Cyrano, King Lear, The Grinning Man, Swallows & Amazons and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all at the Bristol Old Vic and/or West End/International Tour). Bristol Old Vic and/or West End/overseas tours), Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Vienna Opera). War Horse (NT, Lincoln Center, World Tour), for which he and co-director Marianne Elliott won numerous awards, including a Tony Award for Best Director.

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