Theater

David Morris

Princess Grace Award:
Theater Fellowship, 2005

David Evans Morris makes original performance work and scenographic environments for the theater. He co-conceived and designed scenery for ORPHEUS, an alt-rock opera (directed by Kristin Marting) based on the Classical myth, the design of which was included in the United States pavillion at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Also with Ms. Marting: ERENDIRA, DEAD TECH, and POSSESSED. With Les Freres Corbusier (Associate Artist) he co-created and designed the Off-Broadway hit about urban planning, BOOZY: THE LIFE, DEATH, AND SUBSEQUENT VILIFICATION OF LE CORBUSIER AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, ROBERT MOSES, and designed scenery for the Obie-winning A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT, THE FRANKLIN THESIS and PRESIDENT HARDING IS A ROCK STAR. As an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb he designed scenery for QUAIL, DEMON BABY, THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, and THE TRAIN PLAY. David holds degrees from Williams College and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2005 he received a Princess Grace Fellowship, and was a member of the HERE Artist Residency Program from 2005-2007 where he and collaborator Juliet Chia developed EXERCISES FOR THE BODY POLITIC, a series of theatrical events about American civic life.