The Directors of ShapeShifter

Virginia Morris
(Director)

Virginia studied acting and directing with Robert Chapman at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard before moving to New York to work with Sanford Meisner and William Esper at The Neighborhood Playhouse. She performed regionally at theatres in Cleveland, Seattle, Alaska, New York and Chicago (where she studied improvisaton for two years with Paul Sills ). She spent three summers at The Sundance Playwright's Lab in Utah, after which she moved to Los Angeles and, with Didi Conn, Peter Hay and Ethan Phillips, helped form First Stage in Hollywood. She has appeared most recently on T.V. in ER and Dharma and Greg, and on film in Susan Roether's The Facts of Life and Deb Attoinese's Zoe. She was nominated for an A. D. A. best actress award for her performance in Sea Marks, a Celtic Arts Center production directed by Richard Scully, and in 1997 she won a Drama-logue Award for her direction of Michael Solomon's Adam and Eva Marie at Actors Art Theatre. Last year, she and her partner Jimmie F. Skaggs founded ShapeShifter Productions, and together they co-produced the critically acclaimed Mimi's Guide, at the Fremont Centre Theatre, for which they were nominated for an A.D.A. award for best production of a new drama; Virginia was also nominated for her direction of the play.