Tom Morris

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, War Horse (as co-director for National Theatre; 2011 Tony Award for Best Director); A Matter of Life and Death (adapted from the film with Emma Rice), Coram Boy (developed with Melly Still).

Other productions include: Dr Semmelweis, Juliet and her Romeo, The Meaning of Zong (also at the Barbican), Cyrano, King Lear, Touching the Void, The Grinning Man, Swallows & Amazons, Does My Society Look Big in This? and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Bristol Old Vic; The Death of Klinghoffer for ENO and the Metropolitan Opera; Disembodied, Newsnight: The Opera, Kombat Opera Klubneit, Home, Passions, Unsung, To The Island With The Goose, Macbeth, Oedipus The King, Othello Music, Trio, Jerry Springer: The Opera (as producer), Oogly Boogly (devised and directed), All That Fall at Battersea Arts Centre; World Cup Final 1966, Jason and the Argonauts and Ben Hur (all co-written with Carl Heap) at Battersea Arts centre; Nights at the Circus and The Wooden Frock written with Emma Rice for Kneehigh.

Morris was Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic from 2009 to 2022, Artistic Director of BAC from 1995 to 2004 and has been Associate Director at the National Theatre since 2004.

Tom Morris has also conceived and directed two landmark festivals during his time at Bristol Old Vic: Bristol Proms, festival of world class music and integrated digital technology in collaboration with Watershed Bristol and Universal Music Arts and Entertainment, and Bristol Jam: Britain’s first festival of improvisation.

As joint Chief Executive of Bristol Old Vic he oversaw a major restoration and refurbishment of Britain’s oldest continuously working theatre – creating direct visibility from the street for the very first time.

(Updated September 2024)