ANNA MORRISSEY
Movement Director
Movement Direction and
Assistant Direction in Theatre and Opera Includes:
Hansel &
Gretel, NI Opera;
The
Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by
the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The
Marquis de Sade or
Marat/Sade
(RSC); Orpheus In The
Underworld, (Scottish
Opera); On The
Record, (Arcola
Theatre);
Dunsinane, (National Theatre of
Scotland); Bus
Stop, (New Vic Theatre);
My Dad’s A
Birdman, (Young Vic);
Caledonia
(National Theatre of Scotland);
The Comedy of
Errors, directed by Roxana
Silbert (Royal Exchange Theatre); Antony &
Cleopatra, directed by Michael
Boyd and Dunsinane, directed by Roxana Silbert, The
Grain Store, The Drunks, The Tragedy of Thomas
Hobbes, I’ll Be the
Devil, Cordelia Dream
(RSC), Hansel and Gretel
(Opera North), Hanover Square
(Finborough Theatre),
101 Dalmatians
(Northampton Theatre Royal),
The Barber of
Seville, Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park), Dr Faustus (Resolution! The Place),
Restoration
(Headlong Theatre),
Mother Courage
(English Touring Theatre),
The
Tempest, A Warwickshire
Testimony, As You Like It, Macbeth (Bridge House Theatre), Timon of Athens
(RSC/ Cardboard Citizens),
Taming of the
Shrew (Creation Theatre
Co.), Richard
III, (Cambridge Arts
Theatre), Hamlet (Cliffords Tower, York), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
(Tricycle Theatre),
Human Rites
(Southwark Playhouse),
Julius Caesar
(Menier Chocolate Factory),
Tamburlaine the
Great, (Rose Theatre).
Anna enjoyed her directorial debut at the Finborough Theatre
earlier this year with Beating Heart
Cadaver.
Anna has worked as a practitioner with the RSC since June 2006,
working to set up the movement department and working closely with
the Artists’ Development Programme and the Education
Department. She has also taught at E15, Queen Mary and Westfield
and for Shakespeare’s Globe education department. As a
workshop leader she has worked at Circus Space, Warwick University
, University of Michigan for the Birkbeck Directors Course.
Formal
Training
MA Movement studies, Central School of Speech and Drama
(2005)
Assistant to Glynn Macdonald (Master of Movement),
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (2006)
Trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz and modern dance, Lewisham
College (2004)
One year Performance studies - Dance, Birkbeck college (2003)
BA Archaeology and Anthropology, Christ’s College, Cambridge
(2002)
Other Movement
Training
Stage combat level one certificate BASSC.
Studied yoga with Andar Sruthi in Coonor, India.
Residency with SITI company – working in Viewpoints and
Suzuki
Regular classes in Contemporary Dance at Central School of
Ballet
Feldenkrais classes with Richard Cave
Alexander Technique Sessions with Sue Laurie + Glynn
MacDonald
Anna is currently resident Company Movement
Practitioner in the Artistic Development department at the
RSC.
